Archibald Jack
Archibald Jack | |
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| Born | 1874 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Japan)Mentioned in dispatches (3) Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class |
railway engineer and British Army
officer.
Early life and career
Jack was educated at
New Zealand Regiment on the outbreak of the Second Boer War and served in South Africa. The war over, he returned to civilian life, working for the Central South African Railways from 1902 to 1908, the Tientsin-Pakow Railway
in China from 1909 to 1910, and on the railways of Argentina from 1911 to 1916.
First World War
In 1916 he sailed to Britain, was commissioned into the
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the Siberian War Honours of January 1920.[1]
Later career and life
Following the war, Jack returned to civilian life as general manager of the
Sevenoaks railway disaster
of 1927.
Footnotes
- ^ "No. 31732". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 January 1920. p. 663.
References
- Obituary, The Times, 11 February 1939
- Who Was Who
- Military Personnel File online; digitised record for South African War at Archives New Zealand.