Name Henry Jackson Rank General Service/branch British Army | Died October 19, 1972 Role British Army officer Allegiance United Kingdom | |
Commands held 50th (Northumbrian) Division
5th Infantry Brigade
2nd Division
Western Command Awards Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George, Distinguished Service Order | ||
General Sir Henry Cholmondeley Jackson (12 August 1879 – 19 October 1972) was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1930s.
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Military career
Jackson was commissioned into the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment in 1899. He then became Adjutant at the Mounted Infantry School at Longmoor in 1908. He served in World War I and by the end of the War had become General Officer Commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Division.
After the War he became Commander of 5th Infantry Brigade from 1919 and then Commandant at the Machine Gun School at Netheravon from 1924 before moving on to become Director of Military Training at Army Headquarters in India in 1926. He was appointed Commander 2nd Division in 1931, Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment in 1935 and then General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1936. He retired in 1939.
He lived at Piddletrenthide near Dorchester in Dorset.
Family
In 1919 he married Dorothy Nina Seymour.