Jacob MOSES Corporal 17115, 5 th Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own Yorkshire Regiment. Died 27 th May 1918. Jacob Moses appears to have only a tenuous connection with Howden-le-Wear, although his name is inscribed on the village War Memorial. He was born in March 1881 in the village of Kirkley, Ravensworth in Yorkshire. By the time of the 1901 Census Jacob, aged 21, was boarding with the Havis family at Toft Hill, working as a hewer in the coal mine. A decade later he was lodging with the Chambers family in Crook, and was still working as a coal miner. He enlisted at Bishop Auckland during the first year of the war and gave his place of residence as Howden-le-Wear, although there is no specific address recorded. He went to France on the 26 th August 1916 and was soon promoted to corporal. He was serving with his regiment near Chevreux when they were attacked in what was one of the heaviest bombardments yet experienced by the soldiers, which started on the 27 th May 1918. They suffered heavy casualties, one of whom was Corporal Jacob Moses. His body was not recovered, and he is remembered on the Soissons Memorial at Aisne. As well as being remembered on the Howden-le-Wear War Memorial, Jacob is also remembered on the War Memorial at Ravensworth.

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