An Oxford College is looking to include on its war memorial the names of former students who fell while serving with non-Allied forces during the First World War.

The proposal, which would see five extra names added, would follow a precedent set by New College in 1930 and continued by Merton and Magdalen in 1994 and University College in 2018.

The former students whose names would be added are:

Carl Heinrich Hertz, from Hamburg, who died in France in 1918.

Erich Joachim Peucer, from Colmar, who died in Italy in 1917.

Paul Nicholas Esterházy, from Hungary, who died in Poland in 1915.

Gustav Adolf Jacobi, from Weimar, who died in France in 1914.

The fifth name is that of Birmingham-born Lieutenant Emile Jacot, of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who died in Switzerland in 1928.

A former pupil of King Edward’ School, Birmingham, Jacot went on to study sculpture at the Slade School of Art and also wrote poetry. Some reports suggest he died of tuberculosis, but his premature death may have been linked to wounds (and/or gassing) sustained during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

His brother, second lieutenant Conrade Jacot of the Royal Flying Corps, was killed during a training flight on 23 June 1917, aged just 17.

Conrade was the observer in an Avro 504 of No28 Training Squadron operating out of Castle Bromwich airfield near Birmingham when the aircraft’s controls jammed at 3,500 feet and it crashed.

The plan to add the names of the five former students is likely to be approved by Oxford City Council in the coming weeks.