Description
Queen’s South Africa, 2 bars, CC, SA 1902, WW1 BWM and Victory Pair, 6723 Pte Ralph Carrick Jack, Durham Light Infantry, later Royal Fusiliers and RAMC during World War 1.
QSA officially impressed: “6723 Pte R.C. Jack Durham L.I.”
Pair officially impressed: “51051 Pte R.C. Jack R. Fus.”
Both medals confirmed on the rolls and the same man.
Ralph Carrick Jack served in the Boer War with the 4th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
He earned his WW1 Pair for his service as 51051 Private in the Royal Fusiliers, later serving as 146505 in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Ralph Carrick Jack was born in Gateshead Durham on 2nd September 1882.
The son of John Carrick Jack and Elizabeth (Leighton)
He is shown on the 1901 census living at home as a General Labourer just as he had turned 18.
He looks to have enlisted around this time to see service as a young Soldier in South Africa during late 1901-1902.
Now a bit older he returned to service during World War 1, earning the WW1 pair for service between 1916-18.
In 1939 he was still living in Jarrow, Gateshead, Durham with a Kate Cole.
Before that he had married Ellen Dingley Graham and had a son during 1908 named Ralph Carrick Jack (Jr).
He died in Gateshead aged 58 during late 1940.
