Trafford

Born on the 20th March 1915, the birth being registered during the June
quarter 1915 - rtef: 8a/282, the son of John & Bertha Mary Jackson (nee
Hitchen).

Attended Sale Central School and Salford Royal Technical College.   
Employed as a Head Clerk in the Rayon Department of the Fine Cotton
Spinners Association.   He was an active member of the Broadheath Methodist
Church, being a Sunday School Teacher and missionary collector.  He was
also the Broadheath organiser of collections for the National Children's
Home and Orphanage.    Also from 1923, he was a player and secretary of the
St. Mary's Football Club.    Engaged since Christmas 1940, to Miss Joyce
Wardman of West Timperley.

1939 National Registration - 38 Abbey Road, Ashton upon Mersey.   John
Jackson - Married - born: on the 14th May 1888 - occ: Motor Engineer. 
Bertha M. Jackson - Married - born on the 5th June 1884 - occ: Unpaid
Domestic Duties.   John E. Jackson - Single - born on the 23rd November
1912 - occ: Commercial Agent.   Kenneth Jackson - Single - born on the 20th
March 1915 - occ: Head Clerk, Rayon Silk Fibre Spinners.

Called up in 1940 he was posted to the Middle East in 1942.

Died of Multiple Wounds in an Italian POW Field Camp Hospital.

According to the RoH report in the 04/08/1944 edition of the local
newspaper, he was buried in the German/Italian war cemetery at
Mersa-Matruk. 

When war was declared Kenneth joined the Royal Tank Regiment, by then part
of the Royal Armoured Corps. After training he was posted to the 46th Royal
Tank Regiment.   This was one of several Territorial Army tank regiments
that were formed as part of the expansion of the reserves in the late
1930s.   Kenneth did well there, ultimately rising to the rank of
Corporal.

His regiment was one of several that were sent to the Middle East as
fighting developed there, taking part in several operations. It was during
one of these, in the summer of 1942, that Kenneth was wounded.   He died of
his wounds on Monday the 3rd of August 1942, at Matruh, Egypt.

Death reported in the 05/03/1943 edition of the Sale & Stretford Guardian.

He was initially buried at the nearby Matruh Transit Camp cemetery. In June
1944, when several of these smaller cemeteries were closed, he was
re-interred in El Alamein Cemetery. The inscription his parents chose for
his headstone was, "Life's Glory. Steel-true, blade-straight. Resurgam
Invictus".