JACKSON, James Dunlop (1891-1989)
James Jackson was born at the manse, Dunolly on 24 May 1891, the son of Rev James Jackson and Annabella Bryce nee Dunlop, of Geelong.
He was enrolled in 1901 as a day student and possibly left in 1907. He was listed with the following awards in the Annual Report lists:
1901 Dux of Preparatory Class.
1901 1st, English, Junior College Preparatory Form.
1901 1st, History, Junior College Preparatory Form.
1901 1st, Geography, Junior College Preparatory Form.
1901 2nd, Arithmetic, Junior College Preparatory Form.
1901 1st, Scripture, Junior College Preparatory Form.
1903 1st, French, 3rd Class.
1903 2nd, Scripture, Lower 4th Class.
1907 1st, English, 5th Form A.
During World War I, he was Assistant-Paymaster, Royal Australian Navy, attached to the Vice-Admiral’s staff of HMAS Australia.
Pegasus of December 1916 noted:
' J D Jackson has been transferred to HMAS Melbourne. He writes expressing his pleasure at receiving Pegasus containing the names of Old Boys who have volunteered, and says 'We are all keeping well and fit, and anxiously awaiting an opportunity which we hope will come our way.'
He died at Frankston, Victoria on 28 November 1989.
The Australian War Memorial Collection holds a group portrait of officers aboard HMAS Melbourne, taken between 15 June - 2 July 1917. The group includes (E) Lt Howell, Warrant Mechanician J V Corigliano, Warrant Shipwright Watson; Gunners H B Hatton and A Brown, Assistant Paymaster James Dunlop Jackson, Lieutenants G D Moore, Ritchie, E C Rhodes, KHL MacKenzie, Creer, and L C Rowland, T/Surgeon J Smith, Artificer (E) C R Reid, Gunner (T) F Bolt, Chaplain A O Hardie, Surgeon W J Carr, A/Commander E R Gloag, Captain E A Rushton, with the ship’s pet or mascot cat on his lap, (E) Commander G Moore, Paymaster L S Brown; T/Midshipman G E Shaw, RANR, Paymaster’s Clerk A D Cravino, and T/Midshipman G M Munro, RANR. The motto behind the group reads ‘Fear God and Honour the King’.
Sources: Based on an edited extract from Geelong Collegians at the Great War compiled by James Affleck. p 223 (citing Pegasus; AWM EN0313).