242082 Lt. Harold Madoc Jones MID.British Army 17th Battalion, C Coy. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.31st July 1917) Lt. Harold Jones was amonst the names on the
list of casualties published in the The Times on Thursday, 30th of August 1917
Harold was serving with the 17th Royal Welsh Fusiliers, killed on 31st of July, he was the son of the late J.R. Jones, J.P., of Bodfeirig, and of Mrs. Jones, of Bryn Cadnant, Anglesey. He was educated at Christ's College, Brecon, and afterwards gained a scholarship at the University College of Wales, Aberysrwith, where he graduated with classical honours. He took up teaching as his profession, and was very successful and popular as a schoolmaster.
At the outbreak of war he was on the staff of Cardigan County School, and from there he enlisted in a battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers (University Company). In March, 1915, he obtained his commission in the same regiment, and left for the front early in December of the same year. Then henceforward he had been almost continuously on the line. He spent two winters in the trenches, and was mentioned in dispatches. His commanding officer writes: "He died painlessly and gallantly. A more gallant gentleman I have never met."
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