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207536Dvr. John Leslie Jones
British Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
from:Aston, Shropshire
(d.11th Dec 1942)
I have begun to research the family tree and knew very little of the Jones side and this is not an easy side to research as you can imagine searching John Jones.I knew that my Grandfather had a brother who died in the war and my father was named after him, this was all I had to go on. In a passing comment from an elderly cousin of my father I was told that granddad's brother was on the War Memorial in Woore, Shropshire. I travelled to Woore and located his name on the memorial a fact that my father had not known.I looked on the War Graves site and found that Driver John Leslie Jones aged 22 died 11 Dec 1942 of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, PIA Force, of Diphtheria and is buried in Tehran War Cemetery. We have managed from this information to locate a picture from my granddad's things of a man in a REME uniform whom we believe to be John Leslie and in addition have confirmed from my grandparent's wedding photo that this is indeed John Leslie.
It appears that within the family it was agreed that John Leslie would join the war and my granddad would stay at home and look after the family as they both were in protected occupations being farmer's. Only for him not to return, not from an act of war, but to die of an illness, which I believe many fell from in this part of the world at that time.
If any one has knowledge of John Leslie Jones I would love to know and would love him to be recognized and remembered. In addition to him being on the Woore War Memorial his uncle Horace Harry Jones who died of wounds in France, is also of Aston Shropshire.
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