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Thomas Jackson (Royal Navy officer)

Thomas Jackson (Royal Navy officer)

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Admiral Sir Thomas Jackson, KBE, CB, MVO (20 February 1868 – 7 July 1945) was a senior Royal Navy officer during World War I.

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Born the son of Admiral Sir Thomas Sturges Jackson,[2] Jackson joined the Royal Navy in 1881. He was promoted to commander on 31 December 1899,[3] and in early 1900 was posted in lieu of a lieutenant to the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Revenge,[4] stationed in the Fleet Reserve at Chatham Dockyard.[5]

During the Russo-Japanese War, Jackson was a military observer stationed on the Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser Azuma, and was present at the Battle of Tsushima. After the war, he was promoted captain in 1905,[6] and remained as a military attaché in Tokyo in 1906.[7]

In 1913 he became the Director of the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty War Staff and then served in World War I becoming Director of the Operations Division in January 1915.[8] He played a key role in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, providing Admiral Jellicoe with incorrect information that the German High Seas Fleet appeared to have remained in harbour.[9] Promoted to rear admiral in June 1916,[6] he was made Flag Officer, Egypt & The Red Sea in July 1917.[8] He was promoted to vice admiral in March 1920.[6] He retired in 1923 and was promoted admiral on the retired list in 1925.[10][11]

Family

In 1907 he married Mona Anna Murray.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Jackson". The Dreadnought Project. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Jackson". The Peerage.com. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  3. [3]
    "No. 27150". The London Gazette. 2 January 1900. p. 3.
  4. [4]
    "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36085. London. 9 March 1900. p. 12.
  5. [5]
    Burt, pp. 85, 94
  6. [6]
    "Navy List April 1922". Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
  7. [7]
    Kowner, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, p. 169.
  8. [8]
    Royal Navy Flag Officers 1914-1918
  9. [9]
    Massie, Castles of Steel (2003), pp. 580–582
  10. [10]
    "Thomas Jackson". The Dreadnought Project.
  11. [11]
    "No. 33049". The London Gazette. 22 May 1925. p. 3445.

Sources

  • Burt, R. A. (2013). British Battleships 1889–1904. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-065-8.
  • Kowner, Rotem (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-4927-5.
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