Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Henry Haig Jackson
In memory of:
Greaser Henry Haig Jackson
August 9, 1942
Caribbean Sea
Military Service
23
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
MV San Emiliano (London, England) (167216)
Merchant Navy Medal 1939-1945
Additional Information
May 19, 1919
British Columbia
Son of Alfred Henry Jackson and Harriet Ruth Earle of Montreal, Quebec. Husband of Mary Brownwen Hodges of Swansea, Wales. Father of one child.
Alfred enlisted on 17 November 1914 in Edmonton, Alberta, with the 31st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He landed in France on 19 September 1915 and was wounded in action on 2 March 1916 at Kemmel, near Ypres, Belgium, while serving with the 50th Battalion, E Company. Repatriated on 20 April 1917, he was demobilized in Montreal on 5 January 1918. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
On 6 August 1942, she left Trinidad for Table Bay, Cape Town, South Africa, with convoy E-7. Away from the other ships, the San Emiliano was torpedoed on 9 August at 3:24 am by U-155 about 450 miles (724 km) west of Trinidad and sank in flames after breaking in two, position 07°22'N/54°08'W. The captain, 33 crew members and 6 gunners lost their lives. Eight sailors were rescued by a US Army transport and landed in Paramaribo, Suriname.
Commemorated on Page 160 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Nova Scotia, Canada
Panel 21.
The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows:
1918-1945
IN THE HONOUR OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NAVY
ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY
OF CANADA
WHOSE NAMES
ARE INSCRIBED HERE
THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN
BUT THEIR MEMORY
SHALL ENDURE.
On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.
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