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GUNR ANDW B JACKSON M.M.G.S.

2249 Gunner Andrew Bain Jackson

Machine Gun Corps (Motors)

died 27th January 1917

aged 23


Kilbarchan Cemetery
Ranfurly Church Memorial, Bridge of Weir
Ranfurly Castle Golf Club Memorial
Paisley Grammar School Memorial
Glasgow Academy Memorial
Kilbarchan Cemetery

Son of William Jackson and Jean Bain
Woodholm, Bridge of Weir

His Life

Brothers Andrew and George Jackson lost their lives during World War I. Andrew was born on 22nd January 1894 at 8 St. Alban's Terrace, Partick, the son of William Cowan Jackson, from Glasgow, and Jean Lang Bain, from Kirkintilloch who had married on 8th August 1890 in Glasgow. Andrew's known siblings were George and William M, both also born in Partick.

In 1891 William (33) and Jean (27) were living in 8 Highburgh Road, Partick, Glasgow. William was a Sugar Merchant. Grace Chisholm (13) from Keith, Banffshire, was their domestic servant.

By 1901, they had three sons and were living in Highburgh, Donaldfield Road, Bridge of Weir. The three boys, including Andrew (7), were all at school. Elizabeth McGibbon (18) and May Hamilton (18) were domestic servants.

By 1911 the family had moved to Woodholm, Ranfurly, Bridge of Weir and William senior was still a sugar merchant. George was a clerk to a provision merchant; Andrew (17) was a stockbroker's clerk; William junior was still at school. There were no servants in residence.

Gunner Andrew Jackson joined the Motor Machine Gun Service on enlistment. The Motor Machine Gun Service was formed in 1914 and incorporated into the Machine Gun Corps in 1915. Motorcycle sidecar combinations were fitted with a Vickers machine gun and a battery usually consisted of 18 motorbike sidecar combinations, 8 motorcycles without sidecars and 2 or 3 cars or trucks. Recruits to the MMGS had often been members of motor cycle clubs before the war and they were selected for their motorcycling abilities and taken from other regiments.

According to the Glasgow Academy Roll of Honour he was invalided before he joined a theatre of war and died on 27th January 1917 and was buried in Kilbarchan Cemetery. His death is recorded in Banchory, as a patient at the Nordach-on-Dee sanatorium where he was being treated for pulmonary tuberculosis. Andrew was five days into his twenty-third year.

Siblings

Sources

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Andrew Bain Jackson birth certificate 22 January 1894. Regd. Partick, Glasgow 9th Feb 1894.
• 1901 UK Census: Parish: Kilbarchan; ED:3; Page:7; Line:16; Roll: CSSCT1901_188.
• 1911 UK Census: Parish: Kilbarchan; Ward: Bridge of Weir. Page 16. Lines 14-18. 559/0B 004/ 00 016.
• Andrew Bain Jackson death certificate 27 January 1917. Regd. Banchory, Kincardineshire, 29 January 1917.
• Kilbarchan Cemetery Monumental Inscription:
  o Sacred to GEORGE JACKSON Captain 18th H. L. I. killed in action in France near Epehy 25th Aug. 1917 aged 25 years buried at Villers Faucon. Also in loving memory of ANDREW BAIN JACKSON Gunner M. M. G. who died 27th Jan. 1917 aged 23 years WILLIAM COWAN JACKSON died at Woodholm Bridge of Weir 23rd Aug. 1925 aged 67 years JEAN LANG BAIN who died 5th March 1959 aged 96 years beloved wife of WILLIAM COWAN JACKSON also WILLIAM MORRISON JACKSON who died 14th Aug. 1968 aged 72 years. JACKSON.
• Glasgow Academy Roll of Honour, Jackson, Wylie & Co., Glasgow 1933
  o JACKSON, Andrew Bain: Gunner: Gunner: Motor Machine Gun Corps: Invalided and died, 1917: Home Service.
• Medals: Possibly Victory Medal

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