In Memory Of

JACOT, EDWARD (EDUOARD)

Service Details
Age:
 27
Date of Birth:
 1889-10-04
Rank:
 Lieutenant
Unit:
 42nd Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Flying Corps
Date of Death:
 1917-06-06
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, RE-8, A-3235, pilot. on photographic patrol, shot down by machine gun fire, behind enemy lines
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of Fritz and Mathilde Jacot, of "Hauterive", St. John's Rd., Sea Point, Cape Town. Born Cape Town. Educated University of the Cape of Good Hope in 1905. Continuing his studies at the South African College, Cape Town, he was awarded the degree Bachelor of Arts (BA) with honours in physics by the University of the Cape of Good Hope in 1908. In 1910 he won the 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship at the South African College and in 1913 succeeded W. H. Logeman as lecturer in physics at the college. During his short career Jacot produced several scientific papers: "The effect of the electric discharge on water vapour" (with W. H. Logeman; Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 1910, Vol. 2, pp. 137-155); "The reflection of X-rays" (Nature, 1913); "On a relation between ionization by cathode rays and certain chemical effects" (The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 1913); "The radio activity of the atmosphere" (Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, 1914, pp. 271-); and "Measurement of the natural ionisation of the air" (Ibid, 1915, p. 266-). Jacot was a member of the Royal Society of South Africa.