Jackson C G Lt Royal Naval Air Service

Jackson C G Lt Royal Naval Air Service

LIEUTENANT CHARLES GEORGE JACKSON, R.N.V.R., (known to his friends on the Stock Exchange as Peter”) was born in 1872 and educated at private schools and the Independent College, Taunton. He joined the firm of Vivian, Gray, and Co. during the South African boom and became a member of the Stock Exchange in the year 1901. Later, he joined in partnership with E. W. Bose and Co. as a jobber.

At the outbreak of war, being then forty-two years of acted for some time as a Special Constable before receiving his commission as a lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. He rendered valuable service until he contracted pneumonia, following influenza brought age, he on by exposure in the discharge of his duties during the Zeppelin raids.

Lieutenant Jackson was very popular among his brother officers and a favourite with his men, who on his death bore eloquent testimony to the esteem in which they held him and the loss they had sustained.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

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