Name
Cyril Ansley Jones
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/04/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Air Mechanic 2nd Class
F/6689
Royal Naval Air Service
No. 12 Kite Balloon Section
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MOSHI CEMETERY
Plot I, Row C, Grave 7.
Tanzania
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St Mary's Parish Church Memorial, Watford, Watford Grammar School Memorial, Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance
Pre War
Son of Maria Annie (nee ANSLEY) and the late Alfred Miles JONES.
His parents married 13 February 1884 at St Mary Magdalene, East Ham, Essex. Alfred died 21 February 1908 in Watford aged 58, and was buried 26 February in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Maria possibly died 17 August 1934 in Camberley, Surrey, aged 84.
Cyril was born 16 August 1895 in Watford, and baptised 3 November 1895 at St Andrew’s, Watford. He attended Watford Grammar School from 12 January 1903.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Watford, with his father and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, a pupil at school aged 15, he still lived in Watford, with his widowed mother and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He joined the R.N.A.S. 20 July 1915; was entitled to the Victory and British War Medals, and died of disease in Nairobi.
His mother of Watford was notified of his death, and he was buried in Himo Camp Cemetery, British East Africa.
Additional Information
The published Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance entry reads:
“JONES, CYRIL ANSLEY. School period: January, 1903, to December, 1905. 2nd Class Air Mechanic, R.N.A.S. Died of dysentery at Himo, East Africa, 21st April, 1916.”
There is an article about Cyril in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 13 May 1916.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
