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Mike Jackson (British Army officer)
British Army general (1944–2024)
GeneralSir Michael David Jackson, GCB, CBE, DSO, DL (21 March 1944 – 15 October 2024) was a British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War.[1] Originally commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1963, he transferred to the Parachute Regiment in 1970, with which he served two of his three tours of duty in Northern Ireland.
On his first, he was present as an adjutant at the events of the Ballymurphy massacre (1971), where eleven unarmed civilians were shot dead by British troops, and then at Bloody Sunday in 1972, when British soldiers opened fire on unarmed protesters, killing fourteen.
On his second, he was a company commander in the aftermath of the Warrenpoint ambush (1979), when the IRA killed 18 soldiers with two roadside bombs, the British Army's heaviest single loss of life during the Troubles. He was assigned to a staff pos