JACKSON
JACKSON Anthony Siddall
Died 13 February 1944 Age 19
Buried Arlington Cemetery, Virginia, USA
NAME JACKSON Anthony Siddall
Service Record
Infantryman 33832493 of the USA 6th Army
He lived at 24 Market Street (now Redmayne Court), Carnforth with his parents Dr. Edward Siddall and Ruth Jackson. He was born 18 July 1925. His father was the 4th generation of Jackson family doctors to be based in the area, the line beginning with Edward's great grandfather who was an army surgeon at the Battle of Waterloo.
On 2 June 1923, Edward married Ruth Wheeler, an American citizen, in Delaware, Pennysylvania, but both Anthony and his brother Raymond were born in Carnforth.
At the outbreak of WW2 Anthony was a pupil at Sedbergh School. On 19 July 1940, Anthony sailed from Liverpool with his brother and mother, on the Duchess of Atholl, bound for Montreal. On 18 October 1942 he was confirmed into the Episcopal church in Philadelphia.
In 1943, when he turned 18, he became eligible for conscription into the US armed forces, as his mother was an American citizen. According to his draft card, he was living on his own in Elkins Park, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, working for a local plumbing company. He was described as 5ft 9ins,145lbs with blue eyes and blond hair and his father was listed as next of kin. Due to a fire at the US Army Records Office 1973, there are no further surviving details of his military service.
He was killed in action during the US invasion the Phillippines.
According to the obituary in the Lancashire Guardian on 16 March 1945, he was killed in the early stages of the Battle of Luzon in the Phillippines
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