Jasper joined up on the outbreak of war in 1939 and served with his regiment in North Africa, which was equipped with Valentine infantry tanks, where he was to lose his life at the age of 21 on Tuesday 25^th November 1941. He is buried in Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Sollum, Egypt.

‘From mud, through blood, to the green fields beyond’

Son of Julian Baring-Gould & Elizabeth Joan Baring-Gould of Broadway, Dorset.

A copy of this story is available for download here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’  relating to:- Trooper Jasper Julian BARING-GOULD