Stanley Jackson was born on 3rd December 1890, the fifth child of Walter and Elizabeth Jackson of York. At the age of 20 he was a cleaner at the NER locomotive department in York. When he enlisted on 22nd September 1914 he was a fireman and had worked on the railway at York for just over 6 years. He was 5ft 6ins tall with a fresh complexion and brown hair and eyes. He saw action at Gallipoli where he received a bullet wound which led to the amputation of his right middle finger.

He was the second of Walter and Elizabeth's sons to die; his younger brother Lawrence had been killed in France almost exactly a year earlier.

Elizabeth Argent