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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. Herbert Jollyman
British Army 6th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Billericay, Essex
Extract from one of Herbert Jollyman's letters home in 1916: "After dinner we had more skirmishing drill for an hour & a quarter & then marched off for our first lesson in firing on the miniature range. There were some fine results I can assure you. I got 2 hits on the card but there was no sign of the other 3. Several got none at all, other remarks from our instructors were most illuminating! After we had all finished, they took up the rifles & showed us how we ought to do it. Out of 5 shots each, they got 1 hit! & they came to the conclusion the rifles were not sighted properly."
Herbert served with the Machine Gun Section of 6th Middlesex Regiment.
Volunteer Walter Henry Jollyman
British Army Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve
Rflmn. Solomon Jonas
British Army 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Hackney, London
(d.31st March 1918)
Solomon Jonas served with the 9th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps which was raised at Winchester on 21st August 1914 as part of Kitchener's First New Army and joined 42nd Brigade, 14th (Light) Division. They trained at Aldershot, moving to Petworth in November, returning to Aldershot in March 1915. They proceeded to France, landing at Boulogne on 20th May 1915.
They fought in the the Action of Hooge, being the first division to be attacked by flamethrowers. They were in action in the Second Attack on Bellewaarde. In 1916 they were on the Somme seeing action in the Battle of Delville Wood and the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. In 1917 they fought in the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, the First and Third Battle of the Scarpe at Arras, the Battle of Langemark and the First and Second Battle of Passchendaele.
On 2nd February 1918 they transferred to 43rd Brigade, still with 14th (Light) Division. In 1918 they returned to the Somme and were in action during the Battle of St Quentin and the Battle of the Avre, suffering very heavy casualties with almost 6,000 men of the Division killed or injured. The Division was withdrawn from the front line and were engaged building a new defensive line to the rear. On 27th April, the 9th KRRC was reduced to a cadre and on 16th June they transferred to 34th Division. On 27th they joined 39th Division. The 9th KRRC was disbanded on 3rd August 1918.
Pte. George Ernest "Jon" Jonathon
British Army 10th (Hackney) Btn. London Regiment
from:Holborn, London
George Jonathon was my grand father. He survived the Great War, but at a cost, he lost his right arm. I recently was left his medals from my aunt. I have had them cleaned and new ribbons, and lso had them mounted in a case.
VAD. Jones
Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 46 Stationary Hospital
Sister. Jones
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 16 Stationary Hospital
Lt. A M Jones MC.
British Army 50th Battalion Machine Gun Corps
from:A Coy.
Lt. A M Jones MC served with A Coy, 50th Battalion Machine Gun Corps.
Cpl. Albert George Jones
New Zealand Expeditionary Force Wellington Mounted Rifles
from:Christchurch, New Zealand
I don't know much about my Great Grandfather, Albert Jones other than he was gassed and never recovered. He did meet his wife as a result as she was one of his nurses.
Pte. Albert Edward Jones
British Army 19th Btn Manchester Regiment
(d.23rd Jul 1916)
Albert Edward Jones was the son of Thomas and Margaret Jones.
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.
2nd Lt. Alfred Reginald Brabazon Jones
British Army Royal Field Artillery
Sgt. Alfred Jones MM
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Wrexham, Denbighshire
(d.30th Jan 1919)
Pte. Alfred Richard Jones
British Army 4th Battalion South Wales Borderers
from:Six Bells, Abertillery, Monmouthshire
(d.16th February 1917)
My great grandfather, Alfred Jones, died from his wounds received in action on 16th of February 1917 during the campaign in Mesopotamia. He had been a coal miner in the south Wales valleys as stated on the 1911 census. Therefore, we must assume he volunteered to fight. He is buried in the Amara War Cemetery in modern day Iraq. Amara is a town on the left bank of the Tigris some 520 kilometres from the sea. The War Cemetery is a little east of the town between the left bank of the river and the Chahaila Canal.
Amara was occupied by the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force on 3rs of June 1915 and it immediately became a hospital centre. Amara War Cemetery contains 4,621 burials of the First World War, more than 3,000 of which were brought into the cemetery after the Armistice. 925 of the graves are unidentified.
In 1933, all of the headstones were removed from this cemetery when it was discovered that salts in the soil were causing them to deteriorate. Instead a screen wall was erected with the names of those buried in the cemetery engraved upon it. The cemetery is currently in a very bad state but the CWGC is unable to access it at this time.
Pte. Andrew Jones
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
served with 18th DLI and 20th DLI
L/Cpl. Andrew Jones
Canadian Expeditionary Force 15th Btn. Division (Infantry)
L/Cpl Jones was a prisoner in Beienrode POW Camp.
Pnr. Andrew Jones
British Army 12th Labour Btn. Royal Engineers
(d.24th June 1916)
Pioneer Jones was the brother of P. Jones of Upper Jail St., Ennis, Co. Clare.
He is buried near the south boundary of the Ennis (Clare Abbey) Cemetery, Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland.
Gnr. Archibald Mariner Jones
British Army 32nd Trench Mortar Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Abergavenny
(d.17th August 1917)
Gnr. Archibald Mariner Jones
British Army 32nd Trench Mortar Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Abergavenny
(d.17th Aug 1917)
Pte. Arthur Jones
Australian Imperial Forces 36th Btn.
from:70, Macquarie St., Merewether, New South Wales
(d.10th Jun 1917)
Pte. Arthur Jones
Australian Imperial Force 33rd Battalion
from:Barraba, NSW
Arthur was the eldest son of Alfred Singleton Jones a 4th generation Australian, descended from convicts William Jones and Mary-Ann Sullivan. He was 1 of 9 children.
He was wounded three times during the war, the last on September 30 1918, just days before the AIF's final withdrawal. All three injuries were to the left thigh, the final one leading to an amputation.
He moved to Sydney on the 1930's and set up home with his wife in Legge St., Lakemba until his passing in 1965.
Pte. Arthur Jones
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
(d.16th Jun 1915)
Arthur Jones was my husband's Great Uncle. He landed in March, and died aged 19 three months later. He was the son of John and Hannah Jones, of 79 Victoria Street, Northwood, Henley, Stoke-on-Trent. He died during the Battle of Bellewaarde, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
Sgt. Arthur Thomas "Jo" Jones MM & Bar.
British Army 6th Btn. Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry
Born in Oxen 1896, my Father, Arthur Jones was badly wounded in the last period of 1917 possibly winning the bar for his MM (gazetted 9/12/1916)& 12/11/1917) and was hospitalized. He was given a silver shoulder blade, and once fit enough, returned to light duties as a prisoner of war guard. We know at the end of the war (or sooner) he joined the Labour Corps as a Sergeant with the Army number 443711. He ended his service as a Quarter Master Sergeant in 1921.
We are trying to find out more details of which hospital, where and with what type of wounds? where he went next, When he joined the Corps and where did he serve, plus the date of de-mob.
To end the story he re-enlisted in the RAF in 1922 as a Sergeant 351512 and served through-out the Second World War & was awarded the MBE in 1942, retiring in 1951 as a Wing Commander. He died on 12th of July 1972
Cpl. Arthur Frank Jones
British Army 8th Btn. Devonshire Regiment
(d.4th October 1917)
Arthur Jones died at the age of 21 at the Battle of Broodseinde.
Pte. Arthur Reginald Jones
British Army 10th Battalion South Wales Borderers
from:20 Bridge Street, Abertillery
(d.8th October 1918)
Arthur Jones served with the 10th Battalion, South Wales Borderers
Pte. Arthur Ernest Jones
British Army 8th Btn. Kings Own (Royal Lancasters) Regiment
from:Newton, Manchester
(d.2nd Mar 1916)
Pte. Arthur Rowland Jones
British Army 23rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers
from:Porth, South Wales
(d.17th Apr 1918)
Arthur Jones is a long lost member of the family now found.
Pte. Arthur Inkerman Jones
British Army 5th Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:58 Hatherly Road, Reading, Berks
(d.8th Mar 1918)
Arthur Jones was born in 1889 in Drayton, Berkshire one of a family of 8, he was the third eldest son. His two brothers both served in WW1, George was in the 3rd Battalion of the Berkshire Regiment. He died from an illness in Reading while still in training. His other brother Hubert served with The Royal Garrison Artillery and survived the war.
Arthur joined the 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1917 and left for the Western front. He was sent to Fleubaix North East of Lille. On the 8th of March 1918 he was killed in action. He is buried at Rue Petillion Military Cemetery, Fleubaix.
L/Cpl. Benjamin Jones
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Northop Hall
(d.23rd March 1918)
Pte. Bert Jones
British Army 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Stourbridge
(d.14th Sept 1918)
Sgt. C. Jones
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Liverpool
C Jones was wounded in October 1916
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