Corporal Richard Jackson MM
15931 1st Shropshire Light Infantry
2nd Platoon A Coy
Lived at 36 Smalley Street
Burnley Express 8th April 1916 - 21st October 1916 - 14th April 1917

Richard Jackson and William Jackson were the Brothers of
Burnley's "Young Kitchener" Jennie Jackson

Enlisted 21st November 1914
To France 9th pril 1915
Action at Hooge 9th August 1915
Gas Attack 19th December 1915
Action at Ypres (Langamarke) 19th April 1916
Landed on the Somme 10th September 1916
Action on Somme 18th September 1916
Wounded Somme 18th September 1916
Awrded M.M. 18th September 1916
Promoted Acting Corporal 23rd September 1916
Promoted Corporal 23rd September 1916
Furlough 1st November 1916
Arrived from leave to Bethune 13th November 1916
??Camps 26th April 1917
Rejoined Regiment 30th May 1917
R?st 18th July 1917
Wounded 6th September 1917

Military (medal?) missing from family