Esmond S. Jameson

Private Esmond Sefton Jameson was the fourth son of Mr George Jameson, Ellerton, St. Albans. Private Jameson was born in Ashburton thirty-four years ago; his education began at the public school at Springston, but he subsequently attended school for three years in England, and completed his education at Christ's College. On leaving school he was a member of the Christchurch staff of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company for a few years, and then went through his course at Canterbury Agricultural College. Private Jameson took up land at Takapau, Hawke's Bay, and enlisted from his sheep farm in 1917. He joined the 33rd Reinforcements, and left New Zealand for the Front at the beginning of last year. His younger brother, Private Percy M. Jameson, enlisted in 1915, and was killed in action at Fricourt Wood, in the first battle of the Somme, in 1916. Source: Canterbury Agricultural College Magazine, May 1919, p611.