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Jackson, Mike, 1944-2024

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Personal name headingJackson, Mike, 1944-2024
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Variant(s)Jackson, Michael, 1944-2024
Jackson, Michael David, 1944-2024
Associated countryGreat Britain
Birth date1944-03-21
Death date2024-10-15
Place of birthSheffield (England)
AffiliationGreat Britain. Army
Profession or occupationGenerals
Found inSoldier, 2007: t.p. (General Sir Mike Jackson) p. 3 (born ... just ten weeks before D-Day, 6 June 1944)
New York times, viewed Oct. 29, 2024: obituary dated Oct. 24, 2024 (Michael Jackson; Gen. Michael Jackson; full name: Michael David Jackson; born March 21, 1944, in Sheffield, England; died Oct. 15, 2024; a former head of the British Army who famously disobeyed an order by his American superior during the Yugoslav wars; author of 2007 autobiography Soldier; graduated from the Stamford School, an independent boarding school, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst; commissioned an Army officer in 1963, in the Intelligence Corps; earned a degree in Russian studies from Birmingham University; transferred to the paratroopers in 1970; served in Northern Ireland as a young officer; commanded the Parachute Regiment's First Battalion from 1984 to 1986 and was a leader of the United Nations' peacekeeping force in Bosnia between 1995 and 1996; promoted to full general in 2000; became chief of the general staff, the professional head of the British Army, in 2003; named a Knight Commander of the Bath in 2008)