Name
Arthur Robert Edward Jones
1870
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/12/1914
44
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
52848
Royal Engineers
9th Field Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WIMBLEDON (GAP ROAD) CEMETERY
F. B4. 80.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, Sunnyside Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
Arthur Robert Edward Jones was born in 1870 in Nannerch, Flintshire, Wales, the son of Robert and Amelia Jones. He was baptised on 17 July 1870 in Nannerch and his parents were then living at the Post Office, Nannerch and his father's occupation was given as Policeman.
On the 1871 Census family living at the Post Office, Nannerch with his father's occupation given as policeman and post master. They had moved to Church Terrace, Leeswood, Mold, Flintshire. by 1881. His father was then a retired police sergeant.
Arthur served with the Royal Engineers from the age of 19 and on the 1901 Census he was with the 60th Field Company, Royal Engineers (Reg. No. 21889) and living in Longmoor Barracks, Hampshire.
He married Edith Emily Bailey in 1907 at Andover, Hampshire and they were living at 22 Chapel Street, Berkhamsted on the 1911 Census along with his mother in law and sister in law.
They later lived at Rosedale, 84 Ellesmere Road, Great Berkhamsted, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford and served with the 90th Field Company, Royal Engineers as Acting Corporal.
Arthur died on 26 December 1914. aged 44, in Aldershot, Surrey, from tubercule of the lung, haemorrhage and cardiac failure (contracted on active service).
He is buried in Wimbledon (Gap Road), Cemetery, Surrey.
Additional Information
A war gratuity was inadmissible because of insufficient service but his widow did receive pay owing of £2 19s 2d. She also received a pension of 12s 6d a week, which rose to 15 shillings a week.
N.B. CWGC and Soldiers who died in the Great War differ as to the Field Company, one has 9th and the other 90th.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
