404374 Rifleman Alan William Jackson was born in Toronto, Ontario on 17 December 1895 the son of William Robinson Jackson and Elizabeth Bickerstaff. He was a member of Dunn Avenue Presbyterian Church.

A brother, Sergeant Robert Moore Jackson also served with the QOR cadets before WWI and then in the 35th and 3rd Battalions before dying of wounds.

Jackson was a student at Parkdale Collegiate Institute when he enlisted with the 35th Battalion on 9 April 1915. He’d previously had service with The Queen’s Own Rifles. He was transferred to the 3rd Battalion CEF on 21 October 1915. After hospitalization was posted to various reinforcement battalions before returning to the 3rd Battalion in France on 7 August 1916.

He was hospitalized for pneumonia in 1915,  wounded at Vimy Ridge in the right leg in 1916, and then seriously wounded in his right thigh, leading to his right leg being amputated in May 1917. He was invalided to Canada shortly after and formally discharged on 31 December 1917.

On 11 June 1919, Jackson married Elsie Constance Flint in Toronto, Ontario.  They had two sons, one – Lieutenant Colonel Moore Ivan Jackson – served in The Queen’s Own Rifles during WWII and eventually rose to be Commanding Officer of the QOR militia battalion. The other – Alan William Flint Jackson also served in the QOR during WWII.

Moore Jackson died at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital on 28 September 1986.