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JACOBS, Archibald Henry
| Service Number: | 4200 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 11th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, January 1893 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, 1969, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 11 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 4200, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
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| 11 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 4200, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Driver, 4200, 11th Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by St Ignatius' College
Henry Archibald Jacobs was born to Henry Jacobs and Fanny Welch in January 1893 in Isle of Wight Hampshire. Before the war he was a labourer in both England and Australia. In his late teens Jacobs migrated to Australia where on the docks he met his wife Caroline Mary Pharaoh. They married before he left for war on the 2nd October 1915.
Jacobs enlisted to join the army on the 13th of August 1915. He embarked from Australia on the 11th of January 1916. Jacobs trained in different camps around the capital of Egypt Cairo and then went to fight in battles across France and Belgium. Originally Jacobs was a part of the 10th Battalion. He was then moved to the 24th Battalion however on the 26 of February 1916 he joined the 50th Battalion and became a temporary artillery driver on the 18th May 1916 and permanently secured the role on the 1st September 1916, a role he kept for the rest of his time at war.
Jocobs returned to Australia on the ship called China disembarking on the 6th June 1919.
In 1916 Caroline gave birth to their first child in Australia Alice Caroline Jacobs. Three years later the went to England, Croydon Surrey and had their second child Minnie Rosa Jacobs born in 1920. Later that year the family moved from Surrey to his original home the Isle of Wight where they had their third child together Peggy Neta Jacobs. In 1923 they had another child named Thomas Pharaoh Jacobs and in 1925 they had their final child John Henry Jacobs.
Henry Archibald Jacobs passed away in 1969 at the age of 76 in the Isle of Wight England.
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