Fusilier Denis Frank Jacobs was born on 12 July 1927. His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1927 in the Woolwich registration district and his mother's maiden surname was Smith.
He was probably evacuated during World War Two as in the 1939 England and Wales Register he is recorded as a schoolboy at the home of Frederick Thomas Syres (1897-1985), a railway goods shunter, and his wife Violet May Syres née Dunster (1898-1987) at 55 Hunter Road, Ashford, Kent.
He enlisted as a Private in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, service number 14462281, and was attached to the 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), when he was killed, aged 25 years, on 25 November 1952 whilst taking part in Operation Pimlico, a mission to capture one of the hills in an area known as ‘The Apostles’, and destroy the enemy fortification on the hill in Korea. He was initially reported as missing in action, but it was subsequently confirmed that he was killed and his body was buried in Plot 39, Row 3, Grave 3345, in the UN Memorial Cemetery, Tanggok, Pusan, Korea.
He is also commemorated in the Royal Borough of Greenwich's online Book of Remembrance.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk and Andrew Behan.
