Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private R. H. Jacobs, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was twice wounded on the Western Front

1914 Star, with clasp (9793 Pte R. H. Jacobs. 1/R. Berks. R.); British War and Victory Medals (7384 Pte. R. H. Jacobs. R. Berks. R.) clasp struck off-centre, very fine (3) £100-140

Raymond Henry Jacobs was born in Hitcham, Buckinghamshire, on 27 March 1895. He enlisted on 20 June 1912 and served with the 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914. He was wounded in December 1914 and again in June 1916, being discharged on 11 October 1916 and awarded a Silver War Badge (No. 95238). He died in Salisbury in 1990.

The Reading Mercury reported on 2 January 1915 (reporting on December 1914 casualties): ‘Roll of Honour – 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment – Wounded… R. Jacobs, 9793’; and again on 26 June 1915: ‘Raymond Jacobs of the 1st Battalion Royal Berks Regiment (son of Mr Jacobs of Reform Road), has been wounded for the second time and is now suffering from nervous debility.’