Dates:
War Service:
Second Lieutenant ALAN EDWARD AFLALO JACOBS MC, of 8th battalion East Surrey Regiment was killed in action on 7 August 1916, aged 21. His commission as a second lieutenant appeared in the London Gazette of 12 February 1915. The citation for his Military Cross which was gazetted on 16 May 1916 reads: “ For conspicuous gallantry on several occasions, notably when, after having been for the moment forced back by a very superior number of the enemy, he rallied his platoon, and led it in a counter-attack, by which the enemy were driven back again.“
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Location of Memorial:
He is remembered on the memorial in the Catford Bridge Football Club at their ground in Barnet Wood Road, Hayes. He also is remembered on the St Dunstan's WW1 War Memorial
Details:
He was the son of Harold Aflalo Jacobs and Elizabeth Amy Jacobs, of 5, Ebury Road, Catford. He was born in Wandsworth. He attended St Dunstan's College, Catford.
Source:
London Gazette
Contributed By: Andy Pepper
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