Ashtead War Memorials - WWI

Serjeant Arthur John Jackman
Army Pay Corps

The records of Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 record Arthur John Jackman enlisting in London with a place of birth of Wealdstone (an error on somebody’s part). His Service No. was 4022, his rank L/Sgt., his regiment the Royal Army Pay Corps and date of death November 10, 1918. He was buried at St. Giles, Ashtead.

CWCC records his death as follows:

Rank: Serjeant
Service No: 4022
Date of Death:10/11/1918
Age: 28
Regiment/Service: Army Pay Corps
Grave Reference: 486.
Cemetery: ASHTEAD (ST. GILES) CHURCHYARD
Additional Information: Son of Mrs Fanny Dibben, of "Woodside," West Hill, Ashtead.

He died the day before Armistice Day. His death was registered in Epsom District, December 1918 (2a 105). The cause of death is not yet known.

The burial entry in the Parish Register is:
216 - Arthur John Jackman - Woodside, Ashtead - 14th November 1918 - 28 years - RA Waddilove, Rector - and in the margin: 486, 6 ft.

His headstone can be seen via the War Graves link for St Giles on the left of your screen. The inscription at the foot is Peace Perfect Peace.

His Family

Arthur John Jackman was born in Dorchester, Dorset in 1890, son of William Henry Jackman and Fanny Peters who married in the Dorchester area in 1886.

Working on the railway was a Jackman family occupation and William was a railway porter (his father had been a railway guard). In 1891 William and Fanny and their sons Wilfred and Arthur lived in Railway Cottages, Lyndhurst Road Station where William worked.

William was killed on the railway line just outside their house on April 20, 1892 (when his youngest child, Alice Maude Mary, was just 10 days old).

The three children were split up and cared for by friends and relations until Fanny was able to find work and accommodation for them all in Dorchester. Fanny married Arthur Frank Dibben four years later.

By 1901 Fanny and Arthur Dibben (“a stationary engine driver”, often a threshing machine operator) with Fanny’s youngest children were living on the east side of Rectory Lane, Ashtead.

By 1911 they had moved to Cobham but they were back in Ashtead by 1918 and living at 5 Mount Pleasant, Skinners Lane. In the 1920s they lived at “Woodside”, No.3 The Street, Ashtead.

In the 1911 census an Arthur Jackman was a 20-year old “clerk in the plumbing trade” (born Ashtead, Middlesex!) boarding with the Anderson family in Wealdstone, Middlesex.

Arthur Jackman’s sister, Alice Maude Mary Jackman married Jack Worsfold in 1920 and their son Meredith provided information for this story. The late Meredith Worsfold published a book, Ashtead The Street in the 1920’s in 1998 which mentions his maternal grandparents at pp. 3-4.

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page added 27 Feb 2014