Frank Trevor Jackson, Acting Sub Lieutenant, (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve)

<p dir="ltr">My Grandad Frank served in the First World War as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers and survived. In the Second World War, although aged 50, he volunteered for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and served some time on HMS Despatch. I have a few photographs he took during his time, relating to the Middle East and the Suez Canal. I know little about these photographs. He didn't live long enough for me to meet him, which I regret. </p><p>My Grandmother always says that he was on one of the first ships of the war to be sunk by the German pocket battleship Graf Spee. I understand that the Graf Spee sank nine merchant ships between September and December 1939 but saved all the crew, my Grandad being one. I was told that his health suffered, which is why he died aged 57, two years after the war ended.</p>