Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal M. Jackson, Royal Lancaster Regiment, late Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6954 Pte., L.N. Lancs.); 1914 Star, with copy slip-on clasp (8105 Pte., R. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (8105 Cpl., R. Lanc. R.) mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £160-200

Matthew Jackson was born in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire. During the Boer War he served in the 3rd Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Prior to the Great War he was a Weaver, living at 1 Brown Street, Bamber Bridge, with his wife and young son. In the Great War he was a Private in the Royal Lancaster Regiment and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 24 August 1914. Suffered from malaria in June 1917. With some copied research; clasp to Star not confirmed.