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VC1094 Thomas Normon Jackson
Name Thomas Normon Jackson No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1094 Awards VC
Regiment Coldstream Guards, 1st Battalion
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lance-Corporal
Rank End Of Career Lance-Corporal
Place Of Birth Market Street, Swinton, Rotherham, Yorkshire, England
Place Of Death Canal du Nord, near Graincourt, France
Buried/Location Ashes Sanders Keep Military Cemetery, Graincourt-les-Havrincourt, 7 miles west of Cambrai, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot II, Row D, Grave 4
Gazetted 27 November 1918
VC Presented 29 March 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his parents, Thomas & Emma
Memorials
P Headstone, Sanders Keep Military Cemetery, Graincourt-les-Havrincourt, 7 miles west of Cambrai, Pas de Calais, France
P Named on Family Grave, St Margaret's Churchyard, Swinton, South Yorkshire
P Named on War Memorial, St Margaret's Churchyard, Swinton, South Yorkshire
P Named on War Memorial, Mexborough Railway Station, South Yorkshire
P Named on Memorial Fountain, Clifton Park, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
P Named on Railway War Memorial, Royal Victoria Hotel Concourse, Victoria Station Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
P Ring of Remembrance (L'Anneau de la Mémoire), Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Pas-de-Calais, France
P Victoria Cross Railway Plaque, Waiting Room, Mexborough Station, South Yorkshire
P Named on War Memorial, St Margarets Church, Swinton, South Yorkshire
By The Way…
Before the war he worked on theRailways, working at the Loco Depot in Mexborough, South Yorkshire
VC Held By
Coldstream Guards, Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, England
BORN 11 February 1897
DIED 30 September 1918 AGE 21
VC Won 27 September 1918 AGE 21
Place VC Won Near Graincourt, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
