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Digital gallery of Private Samuel James Jones
Digital gallery of
Private Samuel James Jones
Memorial card found in my Fathers WW1 memorabilia.
Pte C B Fewkes 49th Edmonton Regt.
Samuel Jones was a close friend and was KIA on the same day as my Father was badly wounded.
Digital gallery of
Private Samuel James Jones
His army records show him as being 20 when he died, he was actually only 17-1/2. His father died in the flu epidemic after the war but his mother was able to travel to France in 1936 to attend the dedication of the Vimy Memorial. He was their only child.
Digital gallery of
Private Samuel James Jones
From a World War 1 issue of the Edmonton Journal c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Memorial card found in my Fathers WW1 memorabilia. Pte C B Fewkes 49th Edmonton Regt. Samuel Jones was a close friend and was KIA on the same day as my Father was badly wounded.
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His army records show him as being 20 when he died, he was actually only 17-1/2. His father died in the flu epidemic after the war but his mother was able to travel to France in 1936 to attend the dedication of the Vimy Memorial. He was their only child.
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From a World War 1 issue of the Edmonton Journal c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 111 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France
Pozieres is a village some 6 kilometres north-east of Albert, and the POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, which is enclosed by the Pozieres Memorial, is a little south-west of the village on the north side of the main road, D929, from Albert to Pozieres.
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