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===His father===
Dr Arthur Randell Jackson (his father 1877-1944) is sometimes known as the “Father of British Arachnology”. He was born in Southport studied Zoology and then Medicine at Liverpool before setting up a practise originally in the Rhondda Valley and then Hexham but moving to Chester in 1905
On the outbreak of the Great War he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was appointed a Captain and the Medical Officer of the [https://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/battalion.php?pid=7008 9<sup>th</sup> Seaforth Highlanders] with whom he served in France and Flanders from March 1916 until the end of the War. This would have meant he was involved in the Battles of the Somme (Delville Wood, Le Transloy), Scarpe, 1st Passchendaele and Welsh Ridge. Then back to the Somme, followed by action on the Lys, at Outterseene Ridge, Courtrai and Ooteghem.
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