Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Colour-Sergeant T. Jackson, Royal Marine Light Infantry

China 1900, no clasp (Sergt., R.M. H.M.S. Undaunted); 1914 Star, with clasp (Ply.4823 Col. Sergt., R.M. Brigade); British War and Victory Medals (Cr. Sgt., R.M.L.I.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (Ply.4823. A.916 Cr. Sgt. R.F.R.) mounted as worn together with ribbon bar for the first four, good very fine (5) £200-250

Thomas Jackson was born in January 1867, a Great Western Railway employee before he joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry in April 1889. He was promoted Corporal in January 1894, Sergeant in July 1898, and Colour-Sergeant in June 1907. On 1 May 1896 he was noted for courageous action in a street accident. He was discharged due to length of service in 1907, a break in ‘Very Good’ conduct preventing him getting the L.S. & G.C. medal, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve.

Mobilised on 2 August 1914, he served with the Royal Marine Brigade at Ostend, 27-31 August 1914, at Dunkirk and the defence of Dunkirk, 19 September to 12 October 1914. He was wounded in action on 23 November 1914, in the cheek by a bullet and shrapnel shell. Returning to the Plymouth Division he was demobilised on 6 March 1919. He was awarded the R.F.R. L.S. & G.C. medal in June 1924, and died on 10 May 1944. Sold with copy service record.