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Sjt. Alfred Edward Jones MM.
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:East Ham,Essex
My Grandad, Alfred Jones, first joined the Grenadier Guards in 1906 and went to India where he met my grandmother. He transferred to the RH then the RFA starting off as a private then acting corporal, by the time he was in the Royal Field Artillery he was Sargent. He was with the Expeditionary Force France 1914 and won the Military Medal on the Somme. Like most soldiers Grandad didn't want to talk about the war and I can't blame him for how he suffered and came home alive one will never know. Grandad was 19 when he joined the grenadier Guards in 1906 and saw plenty of action.
He came home to East Ham after the war and joined the police force in 1919 and became a Sargent. He won the bronze medal for saving a woman from a burning shop in 1940. He was born 3rd September 1886 in West Ham and had 11 children. Grandad died in 1965.
His brother Christopher Edward Jones also served in the Great War but sadly was killed 26th October 1914. He was with the 2nd Btn Border Regiment. His wife and son are in the picture also grandmother(wife of Alfred) and his 2 children. Christopher Edward Jones is remembered at the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial.
