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Private William Henry Jacobs
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Private William Henry Jacobs Veteran

Birth
Ashford, Ashford Borough, Kent, England
Death
23 Apr 1915 (aged 28)
Monument
Ypres, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium Add to Map
Plot
Panel 24-28-30
Memorial ID
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19935
Private
10th Battalion (Alberta Regiment)
Canadian Infantry
Age 28
Commonwealth War Dead
Commemorated on Page 21 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.

A steamfitter living in Calgary, he enlisted at Valcartier, Quebec in 1914, giving his religion as Church of England. Killed near Ypres in April 1915, Jacobs is listed in the British Jewry Book of Honour WWI edited by Rev. Michael Adler, the first Jewish chaplain of the British Forces, which also states his address as Underwood Block 1 St. W., Calgary, Canada.
19935
Private
10th Battalion (Alberta Regiment)
Canadian Infantry
Age 28
Commonwealth War Dead
Commemorated on Page 21 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.

A steamfitter living in Calgary, he enlisted at Valcartier, Quebec in 1914, giving his religion as Church of England. Killed near Ypres in April 1915, Jacobs is listed in the British Jewry Book of Honour WWI edited by Rev. Michael Adler, the first Jewish chaplain of the British Forces, which also states his address as Underwood Block 1 St. W., Calgary, Canada.

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