Peart Jackson A/ Sgt 4450826
Personnel Entry
Name Peart Jackson
Army number 4450826
Rank Acting Sergeant.
Decorations Service Awards, together with the posthumous award of the Territorial Efficiency Medal on 30/6/1945.
Date of birth Born 1902. Birth registered Q4 1902.
Age 42 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date as yet, but his number suggests 1938. Posted ? 6th Battalion DLI. Posted 10th Battalion DLI, probably 1/9/1939 on embodiment. Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France. Reported missing. Known to have been taken Prisoner of War - probably on 20/5/1940 - official notification received 10/8/1940. Repatriated early to the UK - probably due to illness. Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xvi) 8/12/1944 as unfit for further service.
Company/Battery Company not yet ascertained.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not known but probably Platoon Sergeant.
Joined Brigade Probably 1/9/1939.
Promotions None known beyond Sergeant.
Wounded Not yet known. No PoW Questionnaire appears to have been completed so it is not known whether he was wounded before capture or became ill subsequently.
Prisoner of War Yes - Stalag 20A (7), PoW Number 18685.
Died/Killed in action Died 1/3/1945 aged 42. Buried in Crook Roman Catholic Cemetery - Grave 205. Headstone inscription reads "WHERE MY TREASURE IS, THERE WILL MY HEART BE ALSO.REST IN PEACE, DEAR ONE".
Home address Father Gilbert Martin Peart, mother Jane Peart. Married Catherine Cairns on 17/1/1925. At the time of the 1911 and 1921 Censuses he was living with his family at 34 Wheat Bottom, Helmington Row, Crook.
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