Jacob Gotz

Private Jakob ('Jacob') Gotz was a German-born soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.

He was born in Sobernheim, and settled in England by the early 1900s. He married Emma Smith in 1905, and at the time of the 1911 Census was working as a baker while living on Rowallan Road.

Gotz was posted to the 30th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment). The 30th was one of two labour battalions that were predominantly composed of men classified as 'enemy aliens', earning these units the disparaging sobriquet 'The Kaiser's Own'.^[1] Aged 30, he was killed instantly in an accident at home on 13 February 1918.^[2]

He is buried in Reading Cemetery.

Notes

↑ van Emden, Richard (2013), Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War.
↑ Ancestry.com. England, The National Roll of the Great War, 1914-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

References

Ancestry.co.uk.
Gotz, Jacob, cwgc.org. Retrieved 23 October 2015.

[1] van Emden, Richard (2013), Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War.

[2] Ancestry.com. England, The National Roll of the Great War, 1914-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

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