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Military service
Service number:
219185
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
50th Bn
Birth:
May 19, 1897
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 28, 1915
Smiths Falls, Ontario
Death:
November 19, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
1.E.4
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Jones of Toronto, Ontario.
Additional citations
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Ernest Jones
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was discovered and exhumed in 1937 and now rests in a marked grave.May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of ERNEST JONES
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Grave marker
Grave marker - Adanac Military Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Entrance - Adanac Military Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Adanac Military Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Jones
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Jones
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Jones
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Jones
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Jones
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Jones
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Jones
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Jones
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Jones
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 110 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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