Lieutenant brothers

[Guest geoff501]

I found this record, by accident, on the CWGC website yesterday.

Every death changed a family forever, but the poignancy of this struck me.

Name: JACKSON, HUGO ANTONY LAUNCELOT CEADDA

Initials: H A L C

Nationality: Canadian

Rank: Lieutenant

Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)

Unit Text: 10th Bn.

Date of Death: 28/04/1917

Additional information: Son of the late Rev. Joseph and Elizabeth Jackson, of Holy Trinity Vicarage, Bampton, Oxon. By the deaths of H A L C Jackson and his brother Lt. G O D C Jackson, of the same Regiment, on the same day and in the same action, this branch of the family becomes extinct.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: V. H. 3.

Cemetery: ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI

And here is Hugo's brother:

Name: JACKSON, GEORGE OLAF DAMIEN CEADDA

Initials: G O D C

Nationality: Canadian

Rank: Lieutenant

Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)

Unit Text: 10th Bn.

Age: 33

Date of Death: 28/04/1917

Additional information: Son of the late Rev. Joseph and Elizabeth Jackson, of Holy Trinity Vicarage, Bampton, Oxon. By the deaths of G. O. D. C. Jackson and his brother Lt. H. A. L. C. Jackson, of the same Regiment, on the same day and in the same action, this branch of the family becomes extinct.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. D. 10.

Cemetery: AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

H.A.L.C. Jackson, Law student, born 20th June 1887. Attested in the CEF No. 14951, 24th September 1914 at Valcartier.

G.O.D.C. Jackson, Storekeeper, born 1st July 1886. Attested in the CEF No. 14950, 24th September 1914 at Valcartier.

Now separated by a few kilometers.