WWI - Original Painting by Famous Canadian Painter and WWI Veteran Captain Alexander Young Jackson CC CMG RCA LL. D. (October 3, 1882 – April 5, 1974) - Brother of CGG Lieutenant (Circa 1921-1923)

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WWI - Original Painting by Famous Canadian Painter and WWI Veteran Captain Alexander Young Jackson CC CMG RCA LL. D. (October 3, 1882 – April 5, 1974) - Brother of CGG Lieutenant (Circa 1921-1923)

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Part of the Lieutenant Michael A. Hayes-Rivet (MHR) Trust Collection *** FOR ARCHIVE PURPOSES ONLY - ARTIFACT NOT PART OF MUSEUM COLLECTION *** WWI - Original Painting by Famous Canadian painter and WWI Veteran Captain Alexander Young Jackson CC CMG RCA LL. D. (October 3, 1882 – April 5, 1974) - Brother of CGG Lieutenant (Circa 1921-1923) ABOUT THE 60th BATTALION SOLDIER AND CGG CONNECTION Alexander Young Jackson CC CMG (October 3, 1882 – April 5, 1974) was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Born in Montreal, Alexander Young Jackson left school at the age of twelve and began work at a Montreal printing firm. In 1906, he undertook art studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. The following year he enrolled at the Académie Julian where he studied under Jean Paul Laurens for six months, then he travelled to Italy with others where they visited galleries in Rome, Florence and Venice. They returned to France and Jackson went to the village of Episy with a fellow student named Porter with whom he had lived in Paris. 1st CGG CONNECTION: Brother was an Officer with CGG Honorary Lieutenant William Hespler “Willie” Jackson (1888-1947) – Brother of Canadian ‘Group of Seven’ Painter, Captain Andrew Young (A.Y.) Jackson William Hepler Jackson was the 87th Battalion Pay Master and the brother of famous Canadian War Artist and Group of Seven founder, Alexander Young Jackson CC CMG (October 3, 1882 – April 5, 1974), who served with the 60th Battalion (Victoria Rifles of Canada) CEF from 1915-1916 before becoming an official war artist during World War I (1917–1918). After the war, Andrew Young Jackson taught at the Banff School of Fine Arts, from 1943 to 1949. 2nd CGG CONNECTION: 60th Battalion CEF & CGG Major Ernest George Fosebery, MID With the outbreak of World War I, Jackson enlisted in the Canadian Army's 60th battalion in 1915. Soon after he reached the front, he was wounded at the Battle of Sanctuary Wood in June 1916 and found himself once more at Étaples in the hospital there. While recovering from his injuries, he came to the attention of Lord Beaverbrook thanks to CGG Major Ernest George Fosbery, and A.Y. Jackson was transferred to the Canadian War Records branch as an artist where he went on to create important pictures of events connected with the war and later worked for the Canadian War Memorials as an official war artist from 1917 to 1919. Part of the Lieutenant Michael Hayes-Rivet (MHR) Trust Collection

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Lieutenant Michael Hayes-Rivet, retired.

Create Date

September 13, 2026

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Lieutenant Michael Hayes-Rivet, retired.

Update Date

September 30, 2026