Name
Edwin John Jones
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/03/1919
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
34200
Royal Engineers
Advanced Horse Transport Depot
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TOURNAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED EXTENSION
IV. K. 10.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
Edwin was the husband of Alice Jones who lived at Barker's Cottages, Hitchin Hill, Hitchin after his death.
We do know that he was born around 1883 and that he married an Alice, and that they probably had a child or children, as that is mentioned in his soldier’s effects records. We also know that Alice Chalkley’s addresses included Barker's Cottages, Hitchin Hill, Hitchin and 1 Buckfield Cottages, Hitchin Hill, Hitchin.
Without his location of birth or other details for him or his wife, we have yet to positively identify them in the census and other records, so what follows is out best assumption.
His wife was possibly Alice Chalkley who married an Edwin Jones in second quarter of 1913 or Alice Sarah. If so then she was the daughter of Henry and Sarah Chalkley and living at 12 St Andrews Place, Hitchin, Herts. in 1911 when she was 22 and working as a general domestic servant.
Wartime Service
He was originally Driver 20836, Bedford Regiment and later Driver 34200, Royal Engineers and disembarked in France 3 October 1915.
On 5 March 1916 he was admitted to 42 Casualty Clearing Station from 14 Field Ambulance with ICT(*1) of his left leg. He was then transferred to No. 2 General Hospital at Le Havre on 12 March 1916, with ‘ICT legs 952’ and then spent 6 days at convalescence camp
He served with the Advanced Horse Transport Depot and his Regimental Number was 34200. He died if illness. He was probably admitted to No. 51 Casualty Clearing Station (known as the Highland C.C.S.) which was operating at Tournai. Perhaps Spanish Flu.
He was buried in Plot 4, Row K, Grave 10 in the Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension in Belgium.
*1 ICT stands for 'inflamed connective tissue'.
Additional Information
After his death £8 12s 1d was authorised to go to his widow, Alice, on 13 August 1919, then another £17 3s 10d on 23 September 1919 – for her and her children, and then another4s 7d on 12 November 1919, These sums included a war gratuity of £22.
His pension cards record show that Alice Jones, his widow, claimed a pension, as his next of kin, she was living at 1 Buckfield Cottages, Hitchin Hill, Hitchin. She was awarded a grant of £8 on 25 March 1919, but the details of any pension are not recorded.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
