Name
Frederick John Jones
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/04/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1948
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
IV. B. 41.
France
Headstone Inscription
SADLY MISSED
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
Frederick John Jones (sometimes known as John) was born in 1893 in Berkhamsted, Herts, the son of Robert and Emily Jones. He was one of ten children, although sadly four had died by 1911.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 18 Ravens Lane, Berkhamsted, where his father was working as a carpenter. They had moved to 35 Victoria Road, Berkhamsted by 1911 at which time John was working as a gas fitter.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted in Berkhamsted and joined the 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment. His reg. no. of 1948 suggests he enlisted between January 1912 and January 1913 as a territorial soldier. (Territorial Force soldiers met monthly at their local drill halls and once a year at a camp for training and manoeuvres).
He served in France from 6 November 1914, having left Bury St Edmunds on 5 November and sailed via Southampton to Havre.
He died of wounds on 18 April 1915 when the Regiment were near Bethune and is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His mother, Emily, received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £6 1s 2d. She also received a pension of 5 shillings a week and while living at 35 Victoria Road, Great Berkhamsted, ordered his headstone inscription: "SADLY MISSED".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
