Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Major A. O. Jacob, 20th Hussars

Coronation 1911, unnamed; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (Major, 20/Hrs.), mounted as worn, very fine (2) £200-240

Arthur Otway Jacob was born on 28 August 1867 and educated at St. Columba’s College, Co. Dublin. Jacob was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 20th Hussars from the Militia in December 1888. He was promoted to Lieutenant in September 1891; Captain in September 1895; Adjutant in June 1896 and Major in June 1902. He served in the Boer War, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal, February and April-May 1902, and in the Orange River Colony in January-April and May 1902. During the Great War he served as Assistant Officer at the Infantry Record Office. Jacob was the husband of Violet Kennedy-Erskine (1863-1946), the famous Scottish authoress.