Captain Dmitri JARINTZOFF (1909)

6th Battalion, attached to 8th (Service) Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment
Born 18 August 1890 in Pimlico, London
Killed in action 8 October 1917, aged 27
Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, West Flanders, Belgium. Also commemorated on the war memorials at Winnington Works, Cheshire, and at Steep, Hampshire; and in All Saints Church, Steep.

Dmitri Jarintzoff was the son of General Dmitri Feodorovitch Jarintzoff and Mrs Nadine Jarintzoff, née Ostroverhova, of 15 South Hill Park Gardens, Hampstead, London.

He was educated at Bedales School, Petersfield, Hampshire, and came up to Merton as a Postmaster in 1909, taking a second-class degree in Chemistry in 1913. He was a member of the Musical Society, of the Bodley Literary Society, and of the Junior Science Club; he was also a member of the Officers' Training Corps. In 1910 he was awarded a Choral Scholarship.

At the outbreak of war in 1914, he was researching chemicals at Brunner Mond and Co. in Northwich. He enlisted at the outbreak of war, initially as a Private in the 23rd Battalion, London Regiment, and advanced rapidly through the ranks, becoming acting Company Sergeant-Major in January 1915. In June he was given a commission in the East Lancashire Regiment. His initial service overseas was in Gallipoli, where he was present with the regiment's 6th Battalion from September until just prior to the Allied evacuation, when he was invalided out after contracting enteric fever, pleurisy, and jaundice. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1916.

Returning to the front in 1917, he was wounded at Beaumont-Hamel, partially losing the use of his right hand. Having returned once more in August, he was killed in action on the Western Front, shot dead by a German sniper, on 8 October 1917, two days before his battalion was due to be relieved from its positions.