Lieutenant David Edwin Frederick Hamilton JACKSON (233134)
Royal Engineers

Date of birth: 13th November 1908
Date of death: 22nd April 1944

Died aged 35
Buried at Trincomalee War Cemetery (Sri Lanka) Plot II Row E Grave 11
He was born at Manchester on the 13th of November 1908 the son of David Hamilton Jackson, consulting chemist, of 16 Gladys Road, London NW6, and Margaret (nee Good). His parents were divorced shortly after he was born on, the 5th of June 1909.

He was educated at Milton Abbas School and at the King’s School Canterbury from September 1922 to July 1925 where he was a dayboy. He went on to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1926 where he studied mathmatics and graduated with a BA in 1929.

He was married in Buckinghamshire in early 1938 to Lilias Hoare (nee Nairne).

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on the 2nd of May 1942 and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 2nd of November 1942. He was serving with them in the Far East when he died suddenly, possibly as the result of wounds suffered in the Burma campaign.

He is commemorated on the war memorial at Emmanuel College Cambridge.
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