1210 Lance Corporal Frank Critoph Jackson, Royal Engineers

1210 LANCE CORPORAL
FRANK CRITOPH JACKSON
Royal Engineers
by
Lieutenant Colonel Edward De Santis

Frank Critoph Jackson was from Manor Park in Essex. He enlisted as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers at London for service in the Great War of 1914-1918. Jackson joined the 1/1^st London Field Company, Royal Engineers, a Territorial Force unit. Upon joining the unit, he was assigned Regimental Number 1210. The 1/1^st Field Company was part of the 6^th Division, a Regular Army division.

The 6^th Division was deployed to France in the first month of the war. When the division arrived in France, Jackson already had been appointed to the rank of Lance Corporal. The 1/1^st London Field Company saw action in the battles at Hooge on the 19^th and 30^th of July 1915, and again on the 9^th of August 1915. Lance Corporal Jackson was killed in action on this final day of the Battle of Hooge.

Frank Critoph Jackson has no known grave. His death is commemorated on Panel 9 of the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.

SOURCES:

1. Battle Honours of the Royal Engineers. The Royal Engineer Journal. The Institution of Royal Engineers, 1925-1932.
2. HMSO. Soldiers Died in the Great War.
3. Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site.

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