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World War 1, South-West Asia, Turkey, Gallipoli, 1952 JACKSON, 28 Battalion, 1915
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Photograph of Private William "Bill" John Jackson, 28 Battalion of Fremantle, killed in action 16-18 November 1916
William ‘Bill’ John Jackson was born in the Bunbury area of Western Australia around 1884. He was the son of Matthew Jackson, a member of a pioneering family, and Louisa White who was also known as Corbecan. Louisa was the daughter of William White, a sawyer, and an Aboriginal woman named Mary Cabelgan.
Historical information
Bill was initially raised by his mother in Western Australia’s South West region and later in the Fremantle areabut was taken from Subiaco to New Norcia Mission, In 1906 Bill returned to New Norcia where he married Matilda Newman, the daughter of a station worker Immediately prior to enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on 24 June 1915, Bill was employed in the brickworks at Limestone House in Fremantle.
With the 3rd Reinforcements of 28th Battalion he departed for Egypt aboard the HMAT Anchises on 21 August 1915. Bill served st Gallipoli from 12 October until evacuation on 28 December.. On 16 March 1916, Bill embarked for France as part of the 2nd Australian Division. The Battalion was in action at Armentieres in early April, and then at Pozieres in late July and early August..
Bill Jackson was killed in action between 16 and 18 November 1916. He was thirty-two years old. Bill Jackson is remembered with inscriptions at Villers-Bretonneux, the Australian War Memorial, the Western Australian State War Memorial, ANZAC Way in Albany and a memorial plaque at Point Walter, Perth.
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cwa-org-32-54-706
Contextual Information
The service of 13 Diggers, now identified as Aboriginal, original ANZACs, who served with the Australian Imperial Force in Gallipoli are commemorated by name in dioramas in the World War 1 Gallery at the Australian Army Museum of Western Australia.
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