John Barclay Jaques

Born in Sunderland in 1895, he was a surveyor in Canada before he returned home in 1914 and enlisted in 7th (Territorial Force) Battalion DLI. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant with the 12th (Service) Battalion DLI, he was awarded the Military Cross in June 1916. He transferred to the Royal Air Force in April 1918 and received a permanent commission in 1919. He was killed on 1 April 1920, aged 25, when his aircraft crashed at Abu Hamed in the Sudan and he was buried at Khatoum War Cemetery. In June 1920, John Jaques was posthumously awarded the Air Force Cross.