Thanks to Gary Mitchell for permission to share his Facebook post here on our blog.
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30th December 2021
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.
63 years ago today, on the 30th December 1958, Sergeant John Alfred Charles Jacobson (M.M.), 5th Australian Machine Gun Battalion (Reg No-376), carpenter from "Landeryon", Dawson Street, Waratah, New South Wales and Dora Creek, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 67. ANGLICAN 1-73. 17.
Born at Waratah, New South Wales on the 28th January 1891 to Peter Ludoy - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138748156, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138740447, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138745852, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155430298 and Elizabeth Landeryou Bray Jacobson; husband of Ila Eileen Jacobson nee Morris (married 1922, Burwood, N.S.W., died 1982, sleeping here), John enlisted May 1916 with the 14th Australian Machine Gun Company at Waratah, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133882464 - send off and presentation of gold medal at the Town Hall Hotel, Waratah.
Admitted to hospital 24.6.1917 (not stated).
Wounded in action - 12.9.1917 (shrapnel abrasion to the head, slight), remained on duty.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103726691 - reported wounded.
Awarded Military Medal 14th May 1919.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139653408 - reported that John had been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal?
John returned home September 1919, being discharged on the 17th November 1919.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140070136 - welcome home at the Waratah School of Arts.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140071505 - welcome home at the Waratah Methodist Church.
Mr. Jacobson’s name has been inscribed on the Waratah-St Philip's Anglican Church Roll of Honour (photos, unveiled on the 8th April 1917, 65 names originally inscribed, 96 names now inscribed, 15 Fallen - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133750954. Name not inscribed on the Newcastle Progressive Carpenters & Joiners Roll of Honour (location unknown).
Many thanks to John's Granddaughter Fiona Jacobson for the notification, family history, photos and her eternal love for her Grandfather, and we placed a cross on the 8th March 2015 at John’s unmarked grave to honour his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
John Alfred Charles Jacobson was born and raised in Waratah N.S.W. in 1891 where he worked as a carpenter, enlisting in the 1st A.I.F. in 1916 at the age of 25.
Leaving Australia on board The Commonwealth, he served as a Gunner in the 5th Battalion.
Serving in France he was twice nominated for a Military Medal, receiving one in 1919 for bravery in the field and was honoured the same year in the Australian Honours List.
He returned to Australia a Sergeant in the 1st A.I.F.
After the war had finished, he returned to his family in Waratah, N.S.W.
He opened and ran a grocery and fruit business with his brother in Waratah, married and had a family of his own of nine children.
His descendants are still living in the area and Lake Macquarie.
On the 19th August 1922 at Burrowa, N.S.W., John married Ila Eileen Morris and the couple had at least 2 daughters. Ila died in Newcastle in 1982. Daughter Betty Jacobson, born on the 4th October 1929, married Frank Kelvin Harris and she died at Aberdare in 2007. John, a carpenter, and Ila lived at Dora Creek from about 1936 and Ila was at Cooranbong in 1980. Other Jacobson families who may be related were living at Morisset and Cooranbong. There may have been other children born to the couple, so local descendants are likely.
Lest We Forget.
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