Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant Arthur Henry Augustus Jacob, 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, who died of wounds on 16 July 1916

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £300-350

Arthur Henry Augustus Jacob was the son of Major Arthur Otway Jacob and his wife, Violet Augusta Kennedy-Erskine. Arthur Henry Augustus Jacob was educated at Haileybury and the Imperial Service College. He received a commission in the Army and was advanced to Lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers on 21 May 1915. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in December 1914. Serving with the 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, he died of wounds on 16 July 1916, aged 20 years. He was buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery and his name is commemorated on the Dun War Memorial. It is likely he was mortally wounded in the attack on the first day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916 - the 4th Battalion suffering heavily in an attack near Gommecourt.

His mother, Violet Augusta Kennedy-Erskine (1863-1946), was a noted Scottish writer and poet, descended from the lairds of Dun and an illegitimate daughter of King William IV and Dorothy Jordan. Her most well known prose work was the Jacobite historical novel Flemington.

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