The story behind the last person executed in the Tower of London.
Josef Jakobs – A Photograph of a German Spy
February 18, 2015 / 1 minute of reading
In 2010 or 2011, I posted a photograph of Josef to his virtual memorial on the Find-a-Grave website. I used a slightly warped photograph with a low resolution.
Since I posted that photograph, it has migrated around the web, used freely (and without acknowledgement) by various bloggers.
It seems odd to search for Josef on Google and come across websites with this particular photograph. While the internet is a bit of a wild west, it is still nice when people acknowledge the source, even if it is Find-a-Grave.
Since Josef Jakobs landed near the village of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, his story is often mentioned in histories of the area. Josef Jakobs - April 1940 Photograph provided to Find A Grave by G.K. Jakobs One such website is Upwood & The Raveleys History Pages which have a small section on…
Josef Jakobs was buried in the Common Plot at St. Mary's Cemetery (Kensal Green, London). What this basically means, is that the public purse paid for his burial, along with many others. No gravestone marked his final resting place and in the mid-1970s, a thick layer of soil buried the…
I took a big step forwards a few weeks ago. I decided to post some of the photographs of Josef Jakobs onto Alamy, one of the stock photo websites. There are a number of different stock photography sites; places like Shutterstock, Pixabay, Unsplash, iStock, Getty and Alamy. I chose Alamy…