Horace Sydney Jacobs

Trooper · NZ #15304

What this roll records

The prefix NZ has been added to his service number, on the authority of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph record already linked on this card — the Museum holds him as a New Zealand service person. The digits are unchanged. This roll formerly left the number unmarked, which made it look like a British number to anyone reading the field rather than the card.

Online Cenotaph record found in August 2026. A PAINTER in civilian life; he embarked as a TROOPER of HEADQUARTERS, 2nd N.Z. DIVISIONAL CAVALRY REGIMENT, Third Echelon (2NZEF Nominal Roll 3, p.236) — which names not just his regiment but the troop he came from. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph, record 119619.

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Where this comes from

• Listed in the LRDG Preservation Society’s Troopers roll.

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