JONES, WILLIAM
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Fusilier
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20/09/1944
30
Royal Welch Fusiliers 4th Bn.
I. E. 10.
Untill we meet again for ever remembered by his loving wife and little sons
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Son of Edward and Mary Jones, of Cefn Mawr, Wrexham, Denbighshire; husband of Sarah Jane Jones, of Cefn Mawr.
“This is william Jones (Bill) Royal Welsh Fussiliers. Killed on 20th September 1944, near the Belgium-Holland border. After losing his first wife, after the birth of his third daughter, he married my gran from Sixmilescross and had two sons, Bill and Winston. He would have shopped in Sixmilescross, had a beer in its pubs and fished the Remackin and Cloughfin rivers. He was shot at the young age of 28 when my father was 3 years old.
Just one of thousands who won’t be forgotten.”
From the service records of William Jones, the following account can be reconstructed.
William Jones was born on 22 January 1914. Before his military service he worked as a miner. His physical description records him as 5 feet 6½ inches tall, with blue eyes and brown hair.
He enlisted in the Royal Welch Fusiliers on 10 March 1938, several years before the outbreak of the Second World War. William was deployed to North-West Europe on 20 June 1944, taking part in the Allied operations following the Normandy landings.
The service file records two marriages. He married Elizabeth May Richards on 14 December 1932, and later Sarah Jane Patterson on 29 January 1941. The presence of two dependants’ pension forms, addressed to two different addresses and relating to two children, indicates a complex personal situation, as reflected in the official records.
William Jones was killed in action on 20 September 1944, during the heavy fighting in North-West Europe.
Initial gravesite at Steensel.
Three grandsons of William Jones visiting in 2016.
The medals of William Jones
