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Jackson, Ernest William
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Bill Jackson received his BSc (Eng) from Regent Street Polytechnic in 1951. He moved with his civil engineering career a great deal, spending 5 years in Nigeria 1955-60 and 2 years in Northern Ireland 1967-69. Bill was engineer in charge of the construction of the Cookstown Cement Works, later bombed by the IRA. In 1975/6 Bill was in charge of part of the M4/M5 motorway junction at Almondsbury, Bristol. Bill hadjoined Sir Lyndsey Parkinson & Co. in 1960. In 1982 the company was taken over by AMEC and soon after Bill retired to run a small hotel with his wife in Bournemouth which they did for the next 24 years. Bill died aged 80 in 2008.
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Person · 1898-9 Apr 1917
Killed in action on 9th April 1917 aged 19 whilst serving with 1/12th (County of London) Battalion (The Rangers). He is buried in plot I. A. 36. of London Cemetery, Neuville-Vitasse.