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  • Aberayon
  • Cardiganshire
  • Son of David Rees Jones and Mary Jones, of 13, Amersham Grove, New Cross, London
  • Brockley Secondary School
    St Olaves (Captain of School 1914-1915)

Military service

  • September 1915, Inns of Court OTC.
  • Second Lieutenant
  • 1st/20th Bn. London Regiment
  • 2Lt in July 1916, attached to the 20th Londons (Blackheath and Woolwich); To France on 31 September 1915

Death

  • Hooge, 68 degrees fahrenheit, 50% cloud an no rainfall.
  • Direct shell hit in the head; passed away in the ambulance car.
    His brother was hit by the same shell and badly wounded.
    Died of gunshot wounds on right thigh and fractured femur in n°3 Canadian CCS
  • 20
  • XVI - A - 15

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