Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. Albert Jackson

British Army 10th Btn. West Yorks Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own)

from:Wistow, Selby, N. Yorkshire

(d.1st July 1916)

Albert Jackson and his brother Fred joined up on the same day. They fought in the Battle of the Somme and were both killed on 1st July 1916. Their mother received telegrams within an hour of each other saying her sons had been killed in action.

Albert is my great uncle and Fred is my grandfather. Their father George was a Methodist Preacher at Wistow Methodist Chapel.



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