Captain Aylmer Vivian Jarrett, DSO, 2nd Battalion the York and Lancaster Regiment. He was the 4th son of Colonel Henry Sullivan Jarrett, Companion of the Indian Empire (CIE), and Agnes Delacour Jarrett (daughter of the late Francis Beaufort, Bengal Civil Service), of South Lodge, East Grinstead, Sussex. Educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire. Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the York and Lancaster Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant on 12 Aug 1899. Promoted to Lieutenant on 16 Dec 1900 and to Captain on 1 Jan 1906. He joined the 2nd Battalion in Agra, Bengal, India on commissioning. He was Adjutant of his Battalion when they returned to Dover, Kent from Dec 1904 to Nov 1907. He was attached to the West African Regiment from Aug 1908 to Oct 1911. When WW1 started the Battalion was stationed at Limerick, Ireland. They were mobilised and landed at St Nazaire on 9 Sep 1914 as part of the 6th Division and were deployed to the Aisne. They then moved north and fought in the Battle of Armentières when the 6th Division fought a fierce battle for the high ground on a line from Preniesques to Radinghem from 20 to 31 Oct 1914 and they remained in the area for the next few months. In 1915 they were deployed in Flanders, fighting about Hooge, just East of Ypres. Captain Jarrett was mentioned in despatches by Field Marshal Sir John French [London Gazette: 22 Jun 1915] for gallant and distinguished service in the field and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915], his name having been sent up four times for special recognition. He was shot in the head and severely wounded on 22 Jun 1915 while returning with a working party near Ypres. He died of his wounds in the Field Hospital at Vlamertinghe the same day. He was buried in Hop Store Cemetery, Vlamertinghe, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium.

He is also commemorated on the Stoneyhurst College WW1 Shrine, Stonyhurst, Ribble Valley, Lancashire (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42639), on the East Grinstead War Memorial, High Street, East Grinstead, West Sussex (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/140969/) and on the York and Lancaster Regiment WW1 Memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.

His elder brother, Major Charles Harry Brownlow Jarrett, 1st Battalion the Royal Munster Fusiliers, was killed in action at Gallipoli and is buried in the Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Gelibolu, Çanakkale, Turkey.