14 Facts About Arthur Jaques

Arthur Jaques was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

Arthur Jaques would serve in the war with the West Yorkshire Regiment and was killed in action in September 1915 at the Battle of Loos.

The son of Joseph Arthur Jaques, he was born in Shanghai in March 1888.

Arthur Jaques was educated in England at Aldenham School in Hertfordshire, where he played for the school cricket team as a bowler.

Arthur Jaques toured the West Indies with the Marylebone Cricket Club in early 1913, making his debut in first-class cricket on the tour against Barbados at Bridgetown.

Arthur Jaques made a further seven first-class appearances on the tour, scoring 106 runs and taking 5 wickets.

Arthur Jaques appeared regularly for Hampshire during the 1913 season, a season in which Wisden claimed "he did nothing remarkable" in.

Arthur Jaques had a prolific season the following year, making a further 28 first-class appearances, 26 of which came for Hampshire, as well as appearing twice for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players fixtures at The Oval and Lord's.

Arthur Jaques formed a potent bowling partnership with Alec Kennedy, with the pair often bowling unchanged and helping take Hampshire to fifth place in the County Championship, their highest-ever finish.

Arthur Jaques was a useful lower order batsman, scoring 982 across his first-class career at a batting average of 12.75; he made one half century, a score of 68 against Worcestershire in 1914, in which he put on a partnership of 107 for the tenth wicket with Walter Livsey.

Arthur Jaques volunteered to serve in the war, receiving a commission into the West Yorkshire Regiment as a temporary second lieutenant in October 1914, before being made a temporary lieutenant in the following month.

Arthur Jaques fought in the Battle of Loos in September 1915, during the course of which he was killed in action on the 27th; he was killed on the same day as his brother, Joseph Hodgson Arthur Jaques.

Arthur Jaques's body was never recovered, with him being commemorated on the Loos Memorial.

Arthur Jaques was survived by his widow, Edith Glenny Vale, whom he had married at South Stoneham a little over a month prior to his death.