HUBERT JOHN JACOBS
From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730
As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570
Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.
Born: 1895, Ipswich.
Death assumed: 21st September 1918; age 23; KiA.
Residence: 13, York Road, Ipswich.
Enlistment: 8th September 1914; age: 20 years & 4 months; Occupation: Tram Conductor; Next of Kin: sister – Alice Jacobs, 13 York Street, Ipswich. Height: 5ft 3ins, dark complexion, blue eyes, brown hair.
Discharged: 24th December 1914 – Brighton – Very Deaf. Served 108 days.
Re-Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Lance Corporal; Service Number: 41264
Regiment: Essex Regiment, 10th Battalion.
Formerly 15911, Bedfordshire Regiment.
Memorial Reference:
Panel 7.
Vis-en-Artois Memorial,
Pas de Calais,
France.
Brother to STEPHEN THOMAS JACOBS.
CENSUS
1901 37, White Elm Street, Ipswich.
Hubert was 5 years old and living with his widowed mother & siblings.
Ann Grimwood Jacobs (nee Clay), 38, a Laundress, born Blackfriars, London.
Alice Amelia Jacobs, 18, a Dressmaker, born Bildeston, Suffolk.
John William Jacobs, 17, an Iron Driller – Foundry, born Bildeston.
Stephen Thomas Jacobs, 15, a Carpenter’s Labourer, born Bildeston.
Charles Frederick Jacobs, 12, born Bildeston.
1911 13, York Road, Ipswich.
Hubert was 15 years old, a Blacksmith Apprentice – Engineering Works. He was living with his mother, step father & step brother.
Harry Smith, 50, a General Labourer – Docks, born Hadleigh, Suffolk.
Ann, 48.
Harry Thomas Smith, 19, a Seaman, born Ipswich.
Hubert’s father was John Jacobs, born 1860, Bildeston, died 13th December 1894, Mile End Hospital, Colchester. He was a Brewer’s Labourer.
In 1915, Ipswich, Hubert married Alice Maud Osborn, born December 1895, Ipswich – grandaughter of James Osborn, a boilermaker’s labourer, and Sarah Osborn (nee Gould), of 87, Alan Road, Ipswich.
They had 2 daughters:
Edna Alice Jacobs, born March 1916, Ipswich.
Irene Evelyn Jacobs, born November 1918, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Alice Maud Jacobs – widow.
Hubert is also remembered on the war memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich.
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