Name
Idris Jones
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
01/01/1942
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Signalman
2598211
Royal Corps of Signals
6th A.A. Div. Sigs.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
S.E. Extn. Grave 522.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
A BLESSED THING IT WAS TO HAVE HAD A HUSBAND SO UTTERLY DEVOTED TO HIS WIFE
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born in Glamorgan but at the time he enlisted was resident in Hertfordshire. His Service Number was 2598211 and he was a Signalman with the 6th Anti-Aircraft Division Signals. The circumstances of his death have not been discovered.
He is buried in Hitchin Cemetery in Grave 522 south east extension. He was the son of the Reverend Samuel and Hannah Jones and the husband of Jessie Margaret Jones of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian
