Claud Jacob

Field Marshal Sir Claud William Jacob GCB, GCSI, KCMG was a British Army officer. He served in the First World War as commander of the Dehra Dun Brigade, as General Officer Commanding 21st Division and as General Officer Commanding II Corps in the Fifth Army. During the Battle of the Somme, his corps undertook the British attack during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge in September 1916 and the subsequent assault on St Pierre Divion during the Battle of the Ancre in November 1916. He remained in command of II Corps for the Battle of Passchendaele in Autumn 1917. After the War he commanded a corps of the British Army of the Rhine during the occupation there and then served as Chief of the General Staff in India. He went on to be General Officer Commanding Northern Command in India before temporarily becoming CommanderinChief, India and then taking over as Military Secretary to the India Office.

Jacob was born onNovember 1863, at Mahidpur in the Bombay Presidency of British India, to MajorGeneral William Jacob and Eliza Jacob.

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