Cedric Arthur Jackson

Cedric was the son of William Frederick and Emilie Jackson. At the time of the 1911 census, his parents and three youngest sisters (from a family of seven children) were all living at Broadstorth House in Dore. William was a retired steel manufacturer, and Cedric was recorded as 'learning the cutlery industry'.

Initially, Cedric had enlisted in the Sheffield Pals Battalion, but by the time of his death on Bonfire Night, 1917 he had transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. He was killed whilst flying off the Dover coast, at the age of 23.

Unusually, Cedric is not commemorated in a military cemetery, but in the churchyard of Christ Church, Dore, where the gravestone also records the death of his elder sister Grace shortly before the war, also at the age of 23.