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Arthur Jackson (British sport shooter)

British sport shooter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ16209762 ↗
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Arthur Thomas Jackson (19 May 1877 – 1960) was a British sports shooter. He competed for the British Olympic team at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He fought in World War I and was injured three times. As of 1918, he was a lieutenant-colonel, and had earned a third bar for his Distinguished Service Order.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arthur Jackson (British sport shooter)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.