Child of Harrison and Lucy Jackson

"At Wilmslow, Lucy, wife of Harrison Jackson, a son, who was named Hugo Harrison."

Any belongings of H.H. Jackson, including letters, papers etc, aret to be sent to:—

   H. Jackson

      The Universal Digestive Tea Co. Ltd.

         Colonial Warehouse,

            Kendal

& not to his home address.

Hugo Harrison Jackson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Jackson, 1, West Grove, Kendal, formerly of Manchester, was killed on May 27th in France. He was a member of the Friends' Ambulance Unit, a teacher by profession, and formerly a student of Dalton Hall.

The FAU initially supplied their own vehicles and worked for the Belgian Army. Subsequently they became part of the Services Sanitaires Anglaises (SSA) of the French Army which then supplied their vehicles. Several units of the SSA were manned entirely by the FAU and Hugo was part of SSA14. For some time he organized stores but pressed to be allowed to go out with the ambulances. Whilst moving the sick and injured in Picardy along the Aisne front in May 1918, his ambulance became caught up in a rapidly shifting battlefront and was hit by a shell. The driver, N. Gripper was killed outright and Hugo did not survive the journey to the dressings station.

[A Bootham Boy:]

"He was in a convoy of seven cars at the time, [ . . . ] and he was about fifth [ . . . ]. We were on the way to get casualties, and had to pass through a town that was being heavily shelled. Naturally we did not move through slowly, but apparently not quickly enough, and his car was the only one hit, and they were the only men hit. The four cars in front of him knew nothing of it until we pulled up at our destination, and we experienced a heavy shock on hearing the news."

[FAU colleagues:]

The convoy had just made a fairly long move to a little village some 20 kilometres behind the lines, and was expecting a few days' rest, when the German offensive of May 27th took us entirely by surprise. Almost immediately calls for ambulances came pouring in from the neighbouring villages, and N.E. Gripper was the last of a small convoy of six to go through B—————, which was being heavily shelled. The shell which killed him and fatally wounded Hugo H. Jackson (master at Sidcot, 1913-14) must have burst immediately in front of his car, and death was instantaneous. H.H. Jackson lived to reach the C.C.S. at M.N.D., in the cemetery of which both were buried that afternoon; four hours later the hospital fell into the hands of the enemy. Both have been posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre.