Name
Arthur Jaques
7 Mar 1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/09/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 39 and 40.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, Bassett Cross, Bassett, Hampshire, Hampshire County Cricketers,,Southampton Hampshire
Biography
Arthur Jaques was born in Shanghai on March 7, 1888, His Father was Joseph Jaques and Mother Sarah nee Hodgson.
From 1905 to 1907 while at Aldenham he was in the Cricket XI.
He went on to Cambridge but did not play first-class cricket there. However in 1912/13 toured West Indies with the MCC. He played for Hampshire in 1913,and then 1914 in Championship matches. He also played twice for the Gentlemen against Players in 1914, at Lord's and the Oval.
He was killed in action at Bois Hugo, Loos, France, on September 27, 1915, while serving as a Captain in the 12th West Yorkshire Regiment. He was 27.
Brother Joseph Hodgson Jaques, while serving in the same Regiment and Battalion as Arthur, was killed in the same action on the same day.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
