Henry Jackson (British Army officer)

General Sir Henry Cholmondeley Jackson KCB CMG DSO (12 August 1879 - 19 October 1972) was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1930s.

Military career
Jackson was commissioned into the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment in 1899. He then became Adjutant at the Mounted Infantry School at Longmoor in 1908. He served in World War I and by the end of the War had become General Officer Commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Division.

After the War he became Commander of 5th Infantry Brigade from 1919 and then Commandant at the Machine Gun School at Netheravon from 1924 before moving on to become Director of Military Training at Army Headquarters in India in 1926. He was appointed Commander 2nd Division in 1931 and then General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1936; he retired in 1939.

He lived at Piddletrenthide near Dorchester in Dorset.

Family
In 1919 he married Dorothy Nina Seymour.