Name
Basil Gordon Dawes Jones (MC)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/10/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Welsh Regiment
1st Bn., attached 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 7 A and 10 A
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 28 Mar 1897 in Stone Cross, Lindfield, Sussex son of Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Dawes and Emily Georgina (Gordon) Jones. Educated at Haileybury College 1911-14 and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 13 Jan 1915, entered France on 29 April and was promoted Lieutenant in Jul 1915. He was severely wounded near Ypres on 25 May 1915, returned to the front on 10 Feb 1916 and was awarded the MC for gallant conduct with the Lewis guns. He was killed in action on the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
