Herbert Jackson

Herbert was born in Sheffield in 1880 and was living on Staniforth Road, Attercliffe when he married Frances Mabel Marshall on 19th November 1900 in Christ Church, Dore. Frances was the daughter of Thomas and Harriet Marshall and her father was the village grocer and, at that time, Dore's Postmaster.

In the 1901 census, Dore Post Office was next door to Marshall's grocery shop on Church Street. Herbert Jackson became Dore's Postmaster in 1903, holding the job until he enlisted in 1916, first with the King's Own Scottish Borderers, then being transferred to the 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry.

In November 1917 he was wounded at Passchendaele, the Third Battle of Ypres, and was cared for at the hospital in St. Omer where he died on Saturday 5th January 1918. He is buried in Longuenesse (St. Omer) Cemetery, Pas de Calais. Herbert's widow Frances Mabel, lived until 1947 and is buried at Christ Church. They had four children, the youngest of which being Mary, who lived until 2009.

The Dore and Totley Parish Magazine for September 1918 said this of him:

"He came to Dore 20 years ago and was associated with the Post Office all that time. He married into an old-standing Dore family. He filled posts of responsibility on various village committees, viz. the Agricultural Society, the Ploughing Society, Dore Parish Council and Dore Insurance Club, being widely known and respected. He was of a cheerful disposition, with an intensely patriotic spirit which made him duty bound to offer himself for military service".

The photograph here must have been taken just before Herbert enlisted and shows him holding the hand of his daughter Catherine. His wife Frances holds Mary in her arms, and we believe that the elderly lady in the doorway may be her mother Harriet. The shop part of the building as shown became the village sweet shop and tobacconist, until it was demolished a few years ago and the remainder of the building converted to a private residence which we now call Jester's Cottage.