Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Driver J. Jackson, Canadian Army Service Corps, late Imperial Yeomanry

Military Medal, G.V.R. (2025 Dvr. J. Jackson. Can: A.S.C.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (21415 Pte. J. Jackson. 65th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (2025 Pte. J. Jackson. Can: A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2025 Pte J. Jackson. C.A.S.C.) edge bruise to QSA, good very fine and better (5) £400-£500

M.M. London Gazette 11 March 1919.

Joseph Jackson was born in Warrington, Lancashire, on 5 September 1880 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Chester on 23 January 1901. He served with the 65th (Leicester Yeomanry) Company in South Africa during the Boer War, and was discharged at Aldershot on 5 August 1902. Emigrating to Canada, he attested for the Canadian Army Service Corps at Montreal on 22 November 1914, and served during the Great War with the 2nd Canadian Divisional Train, attached to the 6th Canadian Field Ambulance on the Western Front from 17 September 1915, remaining with this unit until the end of hostilities, almost certainly as an Ambulance Driver. For his services during the Great War he was awarded the Military Medal. He was discharged in England on 16 May 1919.

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