Frederick Jackson

Frederick Jackson was the youngest child born to Harriet Ann, the oldest of the 11 Wainwright children of James and Ann Maria. He was born about 1898 and was the youngest of 8 children. He is the soldier on the right pictured at the left.  The soldier on his left is his uncle Samuel Wainwright from Australia.  The photo was found among my grandmother's effects.

We know that Frederick was born in Sale, Cheshire, and enlisted at Ashton-On-Mersey, Lancashire. He was a private with the 9th Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment and he was killed in action at Flanders, France on November 16, 1916. He would only have been 18 or 19 year of age.

Sometime after his death Harriet and her husband, George, contributed to this stained glass war memorial at the Congregational Church, Ashton-On-Mersey commemorating those of the church who died in the Great War.


The script of the window reads:
THIS WINDOW IS ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE OF OUR CHURCH & SUNDAY SCHOOL WHO DIED FOR US AND OUR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919.

Those listed are:
C. ACKERLEY
B. ANDERSON
J. ARTHUR
C. BRIDGEWOOD
J. BURGESS
W.T. CARRIER
A. CHADWICK
L.S. CRAVEN
P.L.GREAVES
R. HUGHES
F. JACKSON
A. JOHNSON
W. KELSALL
E. LAMB
C.L. LEES
E. MATTHEWS
W. MILLS
J.W. SOUTHERN
N. TRUEBLOOD
J.A. VIETCH
F. WILLIAMS
H. WOOD