Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: John Samuel Jackson
Ancestor's date of birth: 04/10/1875
Ancestor's date of death: 22/01/1923
Cause of Death: Cirrhosis of the Liver
Service Number: 33098 (BH) and 64 (ACH)
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Sydney
Unit: Brabant's Horse then A Squadron 1st Australian Commonwealth Horse
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: On enlistment.
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of Post Boer War service
Murray Page: 169
Contingent: First Australian
Ship: Travelled privately to South Africa for service in Brabant's Horse
Ship: Manchester Merchant, Date of Sailing: 16/02/1902
Memorial details: Detail not provided
Decorations: QSA Medal with clasps: Cape Colony, Transvaal, Orange Free State, and South Africa 1902.
Personal Characteristics: He was a grocer. Height 1.79 m.
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.
Details of service in war: On 5 November 1899, Major-General Sir Edward Yewd Brabant, KCB, CMG raised the Light Horse regiment known as Brabant's Horse. The top strength of the unit was 600, all ranks, including South African colonials, Australians, British, Canadians. The unit saw much action against Boer commandos. Brabant's Horse was disbanded in Cape Town on 31 December 1901. This 1 st battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse proceeded by train from Durban to Newcaslte on 19 March 1902, and thrence to Klerksdorp on 10 April, arriving at the latter place on the 13th. Joined Column under the command of Colonel De Lisle, which formed part of Thornycroft's Brigade. This Column was inspected by Lord Kitchener on 22 April, who expressed himself as pleased with the appearence of men and horses.
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: 9-13 August 1902 on Drayton Grange. Presumably continued to work as a grocer and imbibed a little.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Helen Jackson, Botany NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand Daughter
