George Jackson

Major-General George Hanbury Noble Jackson, (20 December 1876 – 4 September 1958) was a British Army officer.

Military career Educated at Neuenhein College, Heidelberg and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Jackson was commissioned into the Border Regiment on 20 February 1897. He served as adjutant of the Imperial Light Infantry in South Africa during the Second Boer War, and took part in the expedition to relieve Ladysmith seeing action at the Battle of Spion Kop in January 1900 and at the Battle of the Tugela Heights in February 1900. He was wounded but soon returned for duty.

He was promoted on 15 March 1907 to captain.

He served initially as a staff officer and then as commander of the 87th Infantry Brigade from January 1918 during the First World War.

Family In 1917, he married Eileen Dudgeon.