Henry Jackson (British Army officer)

In this article, the surname is Jackson, not Cholmondeley Jackson.

Sir Henry Jackson
Henry Jackson in 1935
Born	(1879-08-12)12 August 1879
Died	19 October 1972(1972-10-19) (aged 93)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Years of service	1899–1939 1940
Rank	General
Service number	14063
Unit	Bedfordshire Regiment
Commands	Western Command (1936–39; 1940) 2nd Division (1931–35) Small Arms School (1926) 5th Infantry Brigade (c. 1919–20) 50th (Northumbrian) Division (1918–19)
Battles / wars	First World War Second World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in Despatches

General Sir Henry Cholmondeley Jackson, KCB, CMG, DSO (12 August 1879 – 19 October 1972) was a British Army officer who achieved high office in the 1930s.

Military career

King George V inspecting the 13th (Scottish Horse) Battalion, Black Watch on the Maubeuge-Avesnes road. With the King are General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Major General Henry Cholmondeley Jackson and Brigadier General Percy M. Robinson.

Jackson was commissioned into the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment in 1899. He then became adjutant at the Mounted Infantry School at Longmoor in 1908. He became General Officer Commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Division on the Western Front in April 1918 during the First World War.

After the war Jackson became commander of the 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 became General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in 1931 and then General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1936 before retiring in 1939.

Jackson was Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment from 1935 to 1948.

Family

In 1919, Jackson married Dorothy Nina Seymour (1882–1953), one of five children of General Lord William Frederick Ernest Seymour and his wife, Lady Eva (née Eva Anna Caroline Douglas-Pennant). Dorothy Seymour served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and British Red Cross Society during the First World War. She gained the rank of junior commander between 1939 and 1942 in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She died on 7 January 1953, aged 70.