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Pte Edwin Jones
British Army Lancashire Fusiliers
from:doncaster
Edwin Jones enlisted as a volunteer and somehow ended up in the Lancashire Fusiliers. He was from Doncaster. He survived Gallipoli and the Western Front but was wounded by gas and suffered shell shock.
Pte. Elias Jones
British Army 1st Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Denbigh
(d.23rd Aug 1915)
Elias Jones was the son of the late William and Jane Jones of 42 Henllan Street, Denbigh; husband of Elizabeth E Jones of 76 Henllan Street, Denbigh.
Cpl. Elias A. Jones
British Army 4th Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Denbigh
(d.9th April 1917)
Elias A Jones was the son of Elias and Martha Ellen Jones of Gwynfryn Lodge, Denbigh.
Ellis Jones
British Army 16th (1st City) Btn Manchester Regiment
from:Rhyl
(d.18th Aug 1917)
Ellis Jones was my great grandfather but his parents and siblings never knew he had a daughter.
Pte. Ernest Jones
British Army Devonshire Regiment
from:Constable Street, Abbey Hey, Manchester
Ernest Jones took the Queens shilling at Palatine buildings in Manchester. Volunteered Sept 1914. Believed to have served as a regular soldier prior to WW1 with the Devonshire Regiment. Saw action in Gallipoli and landed at Anzac beach. Took part in fierce fighting and was severely wounded at Suvla bay (most likely awaiting evacuation when the Turkish snipers and artillery took advantage of the exposed troops). Believed to have been rescued by an ANZAC and carried to safety. He was invalided to Cairo and returned to England. Then served in the Labour Corps and one news article at time of his death says he was wounded at Poperinghe, France. Unsure if this is a mistake in the article or not.
He holds the 1914-15 Star, General Service and Victory medals. Also the silver war badge. Mum and her sisters remember dressing his knee wounds which weeded until his death aged 92 in the 1970s. He was a very tough man always immaculately dressed and wore a glove. Mum says he was so soft and warm hearted and very kind but had a tough side which required 3 men to get him into an ambulance as he fought so hard.
His son, also Ernest, married a German girl aged 19 and he took her as his own and taught her English when all other women refused to speak to her. Funny story of him marching off to the butcher and threatening him as he refused to serve my German Gran. He was a dedicated Christian and carried a prayer written by his Vicar on the back of a card of 2 tommies in uniform walking down a road when the Angel of Mons appears. A cross is formed in the clouds.
A newspaper article on his death says 'he saw service in many lands' and "after toasting the Monarchs health several times with the colour sergeant still had twopence change." Wished I could have met and heard his stories.
Pte. Ernest Walter Jones
British Army GHQ Reserve Coy. Army Service Corps
from:Bristol
(d.13th Nov 1918)
Ernest Jones was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jones,of Bristol, husband of Florence Eugenia Jones of 1 Addison Rd., St. Anne's Park, Bristol. He was 29 when he died and is buried in Salvatronda Cemetery in Italy.
Pte. Ernest Frederick Jones
British Army 16th Btn. Royal Warwickshire
from:Selly Oak
(d.27th July 1916)
Cpl Ernest Henry Jones
British Army 10th Btn. Warwickshire Regiment
from:Birmingham
(d.7th October 1917)
Pte. Ernest Jones
British Army Cheshire Regiment
from:Little Leigh, Cheshire
My grandfather Ernest Jones served in the First World War as a Private in the Cheshire Regiment. He came from a small village called Little Leigh. I do not know where he was posted to or which battles he fought in but I understand that he might have had something to do with horses in his service. As a country man and farm labourer he would have had experience with the care and use of horses.
What is quite amazing is that his 6 brothers also served in the war and all returned home. Their names are recorded on a marble plaque in the Church of Little Leigh. As I write this on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War, I regret that I do not know more about my Grandfather. He never spoke of his time as a soldier. I am now 3/4 of a century old and soon my generation will be lost through the passage of time to no longer have personal memories of the men who fought so long ago. We have a kind of duty to record their experiences to pass on to our children so that people like the ordinary men, like my grandfather, will not be forgotten.
Pte. Ernest Albert Emmanuel Jones
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Birmingham
(d.25th Apr 1917)
Ernest Jones served with 11th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. I have found all of this out via private family searches through war records
Sr. Eudora Helen Jones
Canadian Army Canadian Army Medical Corps
from:Port Perry, Ontario
I have obtained and examined the military record of Eudora Helen Jones, on behalf of her niece, who is a friend of mine. Eudora Jones was born on 16th of November 1890. She trained young as a nurse, and was nursing at the Sherbrook Protestant Hospital when war broke out.
She volunteered for service on 27th of July 1916 at Montreal. She was a single lady. Her father the Reverend Charles Wesley Jones and her mother of Port Perry were listed as her closest relatives. On her enlistment, Eudora was noted to be age 26, was a graduate nurse, was 5 foot 2 and half inches tall, and had good physical development.
While stationed at Etaples, on the 15th of October 1917 Eudora was diagnosed with pleurisy. She was scheduled to be returned to duty on the 9th of November 1917. However, she was diagnosed with pleurisy plus anemia and sent to England from the 10th November to the 30th of November to recover. Eudora also had foot problems, with some boney growth which made standing and walking for long periods of time painful. With her physical issues and her father being very seriously ill at home in Canada, Eudora was brought home early in May of 1919. Many Canadian servicemen and women had to wait much longer than that to return home, as there was insufficient shipping to bring them all home early.
On 6th of September 1919 at the Ste Anne de Bellevue Military Hospital in Montreal Quebec, where she had been taken for treatment, Eudora was deemed to be medically unfit for further military service. In her military papers she indicated her intention to live at Bancroft Ontario, where her brother ran a business. Within six months of her arrival in Canada, her father passed away. Eudora died in 1972 and is buried at Port Perry.
Sgt. Evan Jones
British Army Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Flint, Wales
(d.29th September 1918)
Evan Jones was a Sergeant in WWI. He was in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 5th Bn. then transferred to (464420) 76th Coy. Labour Corps. He was killed in battle, hit by shrapnel from a shell. He is buried at Louverval Military Cemetery, Diognies in France. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
He was born in Flint, Wales, and worked as a labourer at an Ironworks. He was beloved by his sister Mary Elizabeth.
Evan Maengywn Jones
British Army 7th Btn Royal Welch Fusiliers
from:Tywyn, Merioneth
Pte. Francis Henry Jones
British Army 20th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:South Shields
(d.12th Sept 1918)
My great uncle was always known at home as Harold. It has been very difficult tracing him.
He joined the Durham Light Infantry the 20th Battalion and all I know is he died on 12th Sept 1918 of wounds. His name was Francis Henry Jones, and it is very odd, because he had a younger brother who was also called Francis Henry Jones! I imagine his parents decided to call the later baby after the first born of about 10 children in remembrance of Harold.
I was told he died aged 24 near to the end of the First World War in France. He was a baker before he joined up, and I was told he was a cook in the Army. Perhaps he did his training in Aldershot?
He was born in South Shields, County Durham, and never married, so no children, but as his great niece (his sister Elizabeth's grand daughter) I am proud of what he did.
Pte. Frederick Thomas " " Jones
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Lewes, Sussex
Frederick Jones was born 29-05-1899 and like many others lied about his age in order that he could join the conflict. Became a qualified signaller and saw service at the Somme, Passendale Ridge and Ypres. He was put forward for a gallantry award as, under fire, he pulled a comrade from a trench who had lost both legs due to a blast. He was gassed and received an honourable discharge dated 17-07-1918. He died 25-10-1969.
His Discharge Certificate.
Rifleman Frederick George Jones
British Army 12th Service Battalion Rifle Brigade
from:Tooting
(d.17th Sep 1916)
Frederick George Jones was born at Peckham London in 1894. He was the second son of a George and Emily Martha Jones and came from a large family and had several sisters including my Grandmother, Gertrude Annie Jones. George's brother, Charles Jones, served with the East Surrey regiment and survived the war having suffered from frost bite early in 1915. Fred worked as a pawn broker's assistant at Hyde's of Tooting before the war but joined up as one of Kitchner's Army (K2) when the war broke out. Fred joined the Rifle Brigade and was assigned to the 12th Service Battalion leaving for France on the 27th October 1915.
He saw action with the Battalion in 1916 and at some point in 1916 was transferred to the 1st Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corp. The story is told that he was sitting in the trenches near Heubeterne when the Germans peppered the front line trenches with shell fire. Fred and one other soldier were killed. The date was the 17th September 1916. Fred was buried at the Military Cemetery in Heubeterne shortly after along with the other soldier killed on the same day Rifleman Attenborough. They both lie there still side by side. The 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifles war diary confirms that two ordinary ranks were killed on this date. Fred was 23 years old when he was killed and he was greatly missed by his sisters, brothers and mother and father. My grandmother would stand each year on Remembrance Day the 11th November at 11 O clock and cry as she remembered her brother.
Pte. Frederick Victor Jones
British Army 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Leeds
(d.27th April 1918)
Pte. Frederick George Jones
British Army 6th Battalion The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
from:Wallingford, South Stoke, Oxford
(d.16th Oct 1917)
Frederick G Jones was my great uncle, he was only eighteen when he was sadly drowned in the mud whilst stretcher bearing.
Pte. Frederick Vickers Jones DCM.
British Army 16th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Preston, Lancs
My grandfather Fred Jones had won the DCM in First World War. I would love to find out where he was when he won this,it was on 5th December 1918.
Pte. Frederick Jones
British Army 1st Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:London
On the 6th of May 1916, while serving with 1st KRRC, Frederick Jones was "Buried by shell explosion" and "knocked unconscious for about 3 hours". The 1st KRRC War Diary notes of a bombardment probably responsible for his injuries, it says A Company had 5 killed and 2 wounded.
After X-Rays to his lower back in France, he was transferred to Epsom for further examination. After further treatment at Epsom and The Infirmary, Birmingham, Medical Board decided he was "Permanently unfit for any kind of Service." On the 15th of Dec 1916 he was discharged, wounded and awarded Silver War Badge No 99941. He died on 24th of May 1923. Frederick was my wife's maternal grandfather.
L/Cpl. Frederick William Jones
British Army 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade
from:60 Elwood Street, Islington, London
(d.5th November 1918)
Frederick Jones served with the 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. This information is taken from Islington Council's Record of Residents who lost their lives during WW1.
G. F. Jones
Royal Naval Division Benbow Battalion
Pte. George Jones
British Army 13th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.3rd Aug 1916)
Pte. George William Jones
British Army 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:Kings Sutton, Banbury, Oxon
(d.29th July 1917)
George William Jones served with the 2nd Btn Wiltshire Regiment. He died on 29th July 1917, aged 34. He is remembered with honour on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
His regiment was involved in the 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), based in the small village of Hooge, 4 kilometres east of Ypres. The British reclaimed Hooge Chateau on 31st July 1917 and held Hooge for nine months.
George was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Jones of Banbury, Oxon, and husband of Annie Louise Jones (my paternal grandmother). George was father to five children.
Cpl. George Bordman Jones
British Army 12th Service Btn.
George Jones received gunshot wounds on the 27th of September 1916.
Pte. George Jones MM.
British Army 19th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Stockton on Tees
George Jones from Stockton on Tees served originally in 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry but was convicted of desertion on 23rd of December 1915. He was transferred to 19th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry where he subsequently won a Military Medal for gallantry.
Cpl. Gilbert Edward Jones
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
(d.6th November 1914)
Cpl. Gilbert Edward Jones
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:London
(d.6th November 1914)
Pte. Griffith Owen Jones
British Army 16th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Tanyfron, Wrexham
(d.8th Oct 1918)
Sgt. H. M. Jones
British Army 8th Bn. London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
(d.16th October 1918)
Serjeant Jones att the Nigeria Regiment, W.A.F.F. He is buried in the Baro Cemetery, Nigeria.
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