Henry Jackson (British Army officer)

King George V inspecting the 13th (Scottish Horse) Battalion, Black Watch (149th Brigade, 50th Division) on the Maubeuge-Avesnes road. With the King are General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Major-General Henry Cholmondeley Jackson and Brigadier-General Percy M. Robinson.

Jackson was commissioned into the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment in 1899.[2] He then became Adjutant at the Mounted Infantry School at Longmoor in 1908.[2] He became General Officer Commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Division on the Western Front in April 1918 during the First World War.[3]

After the War he became Commander of 5th Infantry Brigade from 1919[3] and then Commandant at the Machine Gun School at Netheravon from 1924 before moving on to become Director of Military Training at Army Headquarters in India in 1926.[2] He became General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in 1931 and then General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1936 before retiring in 1939.[2]

He was Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment from 1935 to 1948.[4]

In 1919, he married Dorothy Nina Seymour RRC (1882–1953), one of five children of General Lord William Frederick Ernest Seymour and his wife, Lady Eva (née Eva Anna Caroline Douglas-Pennant). Dorothy Seymour served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and British Red Cross Society during the First World War. She gained the rank of Junior Commander between 1939 and 1942 in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She died on 7 January 1953, aged 70.[5]