William Jackson - Military

Military

  • William Jackson (pirate), British pirate
  • William Jackson (VC) (1897–1959), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • William Hicks Jackson (1835–1903), Confederate general from Tennessee
  • Sir William Jackson (British Army officer) (1917–1999), British general, Governor of Gibraltar, military historian, and author
  • William Lowther "Mudwall" Jackson (1825–1890), Confederate general

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