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Jackson

Hugh Marrison Gower

He was born at Maritzburg, Sep 18, 1870, and is son of John Otter Jackson, a former magistrate of Natal. He was educated in England, and in 1889 became student interpreter attached to office of Secretary, for Native Affairs, Natal; thereafter, until 1895, filled various posts in Native Department, Natal; was appointed a Native Comm. in Matabeleland in 1895; took part in suppression of native rising of 1896, as lieutenant in Gifford's Horse; acted on two occasions as Chief Native Commissioner, also as Government nominee on Native Labour Board; is an assistant magistrate for the Bulawayo District, and commands the Matopo troop of the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers. He married, in 1897, Martha Lawson, daughter of T W Greer, of Ixopo, Natal.

Unknown

Jackson

Hugh Milboume

Major

Army HQ Staff. Temporary AAG Made Brevet Lt-Col. MiD by Roberts 2 Apr 1901.

QSA (4) CC Paard Drief Joh. KSA

TNA ref 299/6; 316/78

Royal Engineers, Staff

Jackson

Hugh Milbourne

Lieutenant Colonel

Served in the Burmese Expedition in 1887-8, and in the Boer War in 1899-1902 on the Staff, including the operations in the Orange Free State, and at Paardeberg, being present at the actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Vet River and Zand River, the operations in the Transvaal, and the actions near Johannesburg and Pretoria (Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, QSA with four clasps, and KSA with two clasps). In 1902 he was on Special Commission in connection with the Transvaal-Natal boundary, and in 1903 he was appointed Surveyor General for the Transvaal, with a scat on the Legislative Council.

Staff

Jackson

Hyman

185

Source: Attestation papers. See image on this site.

Railway Pioneer Regiment

Jackson

2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls

Northamptonshire Regiment

Jackson

Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls

Coldstream Guards