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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
44
Rank:
Lieutenant Colonel
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
21st Bn.
Birth:
March 23, 1874
Brockville, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 24, 1916
Brockville, Ontario
Death:
August 8, 1918
Amiens, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. B. I.
Additional information
Son of David B. Jones and Matilda Jones, of Brockville, Ontario. Husband of Isobel Stamford Jones, of Brockville, Ontario.
Commemorated on the Brockville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School Roll of Honour.
Additional citations
Mentioned in Despatches.
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Photo de Elmer Watson Jones
Taken in Canada before going overseas -
Coupure de presse
From the Renfrew Mercury for 6 September 1918. -
Coupure de presse (2)
From the Perth Courier for 7 March 1919. -
Coupre de presse
From The London Gazette issue 30681 for 10 May 1918. -
Pierre tombale
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Coupure de presse
From the Toronto Telegram August 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Coupure de presse
From the Daily Colonist of August 15, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y216uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Coupure de presse
From the British Whig, a Kingston, Ontario newspaper. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo de Elmer Watson Jones
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Coupure de presse
From a World War 1 issue of the Edmonton Journal c.August 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Coupure de presse
From the Vancouver World newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Colonel Elmer Watson Jones
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Lieutenant Colonel Elmer Watson Jones
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Lieutenant Colonel Elmer Watson Jones
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Lieutenant Colonel Elmer Watson Jones
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Lieutenant Colonel Elmer Watson Jones
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Elmer Watson Jones
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Elmer Watson Jones
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Lieutenant Colonel Elmer Watson Jones
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Lieutenant Colonel Elmer Watson Jones
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 438 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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