Identity
Person No.
10890
Service No.
26794
Last Name
First Name
John Reginald Maurice
Initials
J R M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
30
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during attack of second battle of Alamein. The ILH advance continued behind a terrific barrage and the enemy wire was found already blown by shell-fire. Until the last 600 yds of their advance, the battalion met little opposition, but then after they had made their way through an anti-personnel minefield and Capt Jacobs' company was consolidating, he and a small detachment went forward to reconnoitre. While under enemy mortar and anti-tank fire, Capt. Jacobs was shot and killed by rifle fire from a German anti-tank position not 20 yds away from him
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
III. C. 17.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Car
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Formed 21 September 1899 as the Imperial Light Horse (Second Boer War). Volunteer unit in the Transvaal Volunteers 1902-1913, then transferred to the Active Citizen Force as "5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse)" in 1913. Reformed as an armoured regiment 1949; split into 1 LHR/2 LHR 1975 (Border War era), reamalgamated 1997. Renamed Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment 2019.
Notes
Son of Reginald Samuel and Irma Jacobs, of Denton Nurseries, Denton, Northamptonshire, England. An Insurance Agent for "Africa Life Insurance" in Johannesburg. He was unmarried. ***Jewish.
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