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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Aberayon
• Land Cardiganshire
• Family Son of David Rees Jones and Mary Jones, of 13, Amersham Grove, New Cross, London
• Education Brockley Secondary School
  St Olaves (Captain of School 1914-1915)

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment September 1915, Inns of Court OTC.
• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 1st/20th Bn. London Regiment
• Other data related to military career 2Lt in July 1916, attached to the 20th Londons (Blackheath and Woolwich); To France on 31 September 1915

Death

• Wounded Hooge, 68 degrees fahrenheit, 50% cloud an no rainfall.
• Type of wounds 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
• Died at the age of 20
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XVI - A - 15

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