THE FORGOTTEN FALLEN
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CHARLES JONES Lance Corporal 9920 1st Bucks Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Died of Wounds aged 20 8th April 1916
No Known Grave but commemorated in the Basra Memorial, Iraq |
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Charles Jones's birth was registered in High Wycombe in the spring of 1896. The third son of Charles and Laura Jones, he also had two sisters, and another brother followed. The family lived at the Five Elms Public House in Weedon, where his parents were the landlords from about 1900 until the end of the Great War. All four men of the family served in the Great War and one of his elder brothers, Fred, was killed later in 1918. By the time of the 1911 census Charles was working on a local farm. He saw service in France and was wounded on 25th August 1915 whilst serving with the 6th Battalion. In 1917, his parents left the Five Elms having lived there since 1899 and went to live in Luton in Bedfordshire. ----- Bucks Herald Report April 1916 DEATH OF A WEEDON MAN Mr C Jones of the Five Elms, Weedon, received news on Saturday that his son, Private Charles Jones of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, had died from wounds received in action in the Persian Gulf on December 8th. The deceased joined the Army when only 16 years of age and was not 20 at the time of his death. He was in the 1st Battalion Oxford and Bucks. Light Infantry and in August 1915 was wounded at Festubert. After being invalided to England for two months, he was transferred to depot, and eventually to the 2nd Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry with which he was drafted to the Persian Gulf, where as stated he was wounded and died as a result. Deceased father is an ex-Colour-Sergeant of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry and served for seven years on the permanent staff of the Bucks Militia, in which capacity he assisted in the training on the occasion of the last visit of the Militia to Aylesbury. He has three other sons serving with the Colours, one of whom was wounded in the Battle of Mons. ----- |
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