Harry – Violet Jacob’s only child – died aged just twenty from wounds received at the Battle of the Somme, on 16 July 1916. Jacob’s war poems are some of the most poignant & affecting works from the Home Front.
“To A.H.J.”, from MORE SONGS OF ANGUS & OTHERS (1918)
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