Jacob, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalion...
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The Hon. Jacob John Astley
Company Serjeant Major
Service No. 202976
Age 32
Died on 26 September 1917
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
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West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Son of the late George Manners Astley, 20th Baron Hastings and of Elizabeth Evelyn, Baroness Hastings, of 2, Clarendon Place, Hyde Park Gardens, London.
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Jacob, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.
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