1. Claud Jacob 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.
16 Facts About Claud Jacob
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Claud Jacob remained in command of II Corps for the Battle of Passchendaele in Autumn 1917.
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Claud Jacob went on to be General Officer Commanding Northern Command in India before temporarily becoming Commander-in-Chief, India and then taking over as Military Secretary to the India Office.
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Claud Jacob first saw action with the Zhob Valley expedition of 1890 after which he was posted to the 24th Regiment of Bombay Infantry in 1891.
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Claud Jacob took part in the blockade of the Mahsud Waziri tribe at the end of 1901.
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Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War in the summer of 1914, Claud Jacob went with the Meerut Division, part of the Indian Corps, to the Western Front, where he saw action at the closing stages of the Battle of La Bassee in October.
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Claud Jacob was promoted to the substantive rank of major-general on 1 January 1916.
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Claud Jacob was wounded in action on 4 March 1916:.
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Claud Jacob remained in command of II Corps, having been promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant-general on 3 June 1917, for the Battle of Passchendaele in the autumn of 1917 and for the rest of the war and into 1919.
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Claud Jacob became Chief of the General Staff in India in January 1920 and was then both promoted to full general and appointed aide-de-camp to King George V on 31 May 1920.
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Claud Jacob returned home to England in 1924, and in November of that year was given the Northern Command in India.
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When General Lord Rawlinson died in March 1925, he acted temporarily as Commander-in-Chief, India, until General Sir William Birdwood took over that role in August 1925 and Claud Jacob returned home again.
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Claud Jacob took up the appointment of Military Secretary to the India Office in April 1926 and, having been promoted field marshal on 30 November 1926, he remained at the India Office until he retired from the army in May 1930.
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In retirement Claud Jacob became Constable of the Tower of London.
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Claud Jacob was Colonel of 2nd Battalion, The Baluch Regiment, Colonel of the 106th Hazara Pioneers and Colonel of the Worcestershire Regiment.
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Claud Jacob died at King's College Hospital in London on 2 June 1948 at the age of eighty-four.