Jackson James Pte 4458709
Personnel Entry
Name Jackson James
Army number 4458709
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born 3/12/1918 at Houghton-le-Spring.
Age 63 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, 8/1/1940. Posted to No.2 Infantry Base Depot 15/1/1940. Posted to No. 3 Holding Battalion DLI 11/5/1940. Posted to Y List 15/6/1940. Posted to Y List Infantry Training Centre 19/7/1940. Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI 29/8/1940. Served Iceland. Served Normandy. Wounded. Evacuated beyond First Aid Post 16/7/1944. Returned to the UK. Posted to No. 4 Infantry Training Centre 8/9/1944. Transferred to 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters 21/9/1944 on the disbandment of the 11th Battalion DLI. Transferred to the Pioneer Corps and struck off the strength of the Sherwood Foresters 4/1/1945. Posted to No.6.Training Unit 4/1/1945. Posted to 258 Company. Posted to 239 Company 4/4/1945 and served North West Europe. Posted Y/E List and struck off strength of 239 Company. Posted to 12 HTU 24/11/1945 for Class A release. Granted Class B Release 24/11/1945. Relegated to Class W Reserve 24/11/1945. Discharged under TA Regulations 234.1 Demobilised. Army General Reserve 10/2/1954. Discharged from Reserve liability 30/6/1959.
Company/Battery Not yet ascertained.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet ascertained.
Task or role Probably initially Rifleman. Pioneer. Passed Trade test as a Driver/Mechanic Group D Class II 28/1/1943.
Joined Brigade 15/1/1940
Promotions None known.
Wounded Yes - in Normandy - date not recorded.
Prisoner of War No.
Died/Killed in action Death registered in Sunderland July 1982 aged 63.
Home address Working as a Miner at his enlistment. Father Thomas Jackson (1888 - ), mother Hannah Kennedy (1890 - ). Resident at 54 Burdon Street, Ryhope Colliery, Houghton - le - Spring. Married 29/5/1943 to Margaret Ashman (1918 - 2013) at Holy Trinity Church, Houghton- le- Spring.
Source table 11DLI