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BORN 13 September 1897
DIED 4 August 1959 AGE 61
VC Won 25-26 June 1916 AGE 18
Place VC Won Near Armentieres, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name William Jackson No. 588
VC Issue No. 711 Awards VC
Regiment Regiment 17th (New South Wales) Battalion, AIF
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth Gunbar, north of Hay, New South Wales, Australia
Place Of Death Heidelberg Repatriation General Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Headstone Plaque Plot/Grave no. Boronia Gardens
Gazetted 9 September 1916
VC Presented 18 November 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Memorial Plaque, Boronia Gardens, Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
William Jackson members bar at Merriwa RSL Club, Australia
William Jackson VC Memorial Park, Gungal, Australia
P Named On Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia
By The Way…
He was born as John William Alexander Jackson
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