Detail victim

Name JONES
Initials ED
First name EVAN DAVIES
Place of birth Halton
Country Cheshire, England
Family Son of Sir Evan Davies Jones, Bart., and his wife, Cecilia Ann Jones, of Pentower, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. M.A., Cambridge (Trinity); two brothers, Cecil and Tom; two sisters, Mary and Olive;
Education Haileybury and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1915, and taking the degree of M.A. in January in this year
Profession M.A. degree at Trinity College

Rank Lieutenant
Regiment and unit 10th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
Attached or transferred from 2nd - Sqdn. - Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
Other data related to military career He was commissioned in the Royal Fusiliers on August 14th, 1914, and subsequently transferred to the R.F.C, obtaining his pilot's certificate in September, 1917;

Wounded Counter artillery patrol; the Armstrong-Whitworth FK8 C3522 was shot up by ground machine gun fire , 1.20 p.m.; wrecked; Jones was the pilot; the observer, 2Lt Smith, was also killed in action and is buried in Lijssenthoek.
Type of wounds Killed in action
Date of death 2 April 1918
Died at the age of 25
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - E - 9