JONES, WILLIAM
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Fusilier
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20/09/1944
28
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.”
Initial gravesite at Steensel.
Three grandsons of William Jones visiting in 2016.
The medals of William Jones
