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| HUGO HARRISON JACKON 1890 - 1918 |
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| Hugo Harrison Jackson was born on 4th January 1890 in Wilmslow, Cheshire to Harrison and Lucy Jackson, and subsequently lived in Kendal, Westmorland. In 1911 he graduated from Dalton Hall at the University of Manchester and became a science teacher. Towards the end of 1914 Hugo joined the Friends Ambulance Unit and after some initial training, was sent to Belgium and then France in 1915. The FAU initially supplied their own vehicles and he became a driver for them. At first they worked for the Belgian Army, and then 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 SSA 14. For some time he organised the stores but pressed to be allowed to go out with the ambulances. While moving the sick and injured in Picardy along the Aisne front in May 1918, his ambulance became caught in a rapidly shifting battlefront and was hit by a shell. The driver, Norman Gripper, was killed outright and Hugo did not survive the journey to the dressing station. He died on 27 May 1918, and is buried in grave 1. AA. 18 in the British cemetery at Vailly-sur-Aisne, beside his colleague. He, as with many of his colleagues, was awarded the French Croix de Guerre, and he was awarded the Victory and British War medals and the 1914-15 Star.
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