227741 Pte. Robert Jacob British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment from:Baughurst, Hants (d.1st July 1916) Robert Jacob is remembered on a tablet together with his brother George in the churchyard of St. Stephen's, Baughurst, a village in north Hampshire, close to the Berkshire border. He is also recorded on the local war memorial.
He was typical of many young men who went to do his patriotic duty; he died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, aged 20. He is buried in the Ovillers Military Cemetery, five kilometres north-east of Albert.
Robert's older brother also died during WW1. His sister Rose died from TB contracted whilst serving as a nurse, which she also passed on to their younger brother Frederick. All four children of his family died in the space of eleven years.
|