Notes
The memorial records him as a Private in 2nd Battalion Bedfordfordshire Regiment. However, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records that Lewis Jackson was serving as a Lance Corporal in the 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment ( regimental number 9894) when he died on 27/7/1916. He is commemorated on Face 2C of Thiepval Memorial in France.
(Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Lewis Jackson, regimental number 9894, was born in Polebrook. He enlisted in Bedford. His Medal Index Card records him as a Private in 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, and that he was initially sent to France on 6/10/1914. The Medal Roll also records him as being a Private in the 2nd Battalion when he died "on or since 27/7/1916".