Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel E. M. Jackson, Madras Army

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1887-89, Chin Hills 1892-93 (Ltt. E. M. Jackson, 17th Madras Infy.); Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Capt., 11/Sud. E.A.); China 1900, no clasp (Captn., 28th Mad. Infy.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, Firket, Hafir (Capt., 28th Mad. Infy.) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (4) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Alan Wolfe.

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Ernest Montague Jackson was born on 3 November 1863. He was first appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Scots in August 1884, transferred to the Madras Staff Corps in January 1887, and was posted as Wing Officer to the 28th Madras Native Infantry six months later. He saw action with the 28th N.I. during the Burma campaign 1887-89, and in the Chin Hills in 1892-93. During the Dongola Expedition of 1896, Jackson was seconded to the Egyptian Army and placed in command of the 11th Sudanese Battalion. He took part in the operations on 7th June and 19th September, 1896, as Special Service Officer and was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 3 November 1896).

Upon his return to India he was posted to the 9th Madras Infantry as Wing Officer, and by 1899 he commanded the regiment with the rank of Temporary Major. He returned to the 28th shortly afterwards as acting second-in-command and served with the regiment in China during the Boixer rebellion of 1900. He was confirmed as second-in-command in August 1905, by which time the regiment had become the 88th Carnatic Infantry. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1910, assumed command of the 88th the following month, and retired in October 1913.