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===His father===
Dr Arthur
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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His Obituary in '''Nature''' 153, page 613 (1944) reads:
* '''"WITH the death of Dr. A. Randall (sic) Jackson at his home in Chester on March 18 we lose our leading British systematic arachnologist. Despite a busy medical practice, he always found time to provide unstinted help to numerous correspondents in the identification of their collections of British and Arctic spiders, phalangids and chelonethids. This flair for diagnosis has never been surpassed. It enabled him both to straighten out the synonymic muddles created by other workers and also to add many species to the British list. Despite the constant pleadings of his friends, he published comparatively few papers and, as these were often in obscure journals, the excellence of his work never gained the wide recognition it deserved."'''
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