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Name Thomas Parry Jones
Regiment 15th Bn RWF formerly Welsh Horse Yeomanry
Service Rank and Number Private 56824 formerly 1444
Military Cemetery/Memorial Essex farm Cemetery
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial III.E.23
Country of Cemetery/Memorial Belgium
Medals Awarded Victory and British War medals
Date and Circumstances of Death Killed in Action at Ypres on 1st September 1916 aged 21 yrs
Biographical Details Known The 1911 census places this family at Tawelfryn, Mold. The father, David Evans Jones 44 was a book keeper in the drapery trade. He had been born in Gwernymynydd. His wife was Catherine 44 born in Llanferres and their children were Robert Parry 18 a grocer's apprentice, Thomas Parry 15 a junior clerk working for an auctioneer, The girls- Mary Elizabeth 13, Gwendoline Parry 10 and Francis Jane 7 were all at school.
Regiment 15th Bn RWF formerly Welsh Horse Yeomanry
Service Rank and Number Private 56824 formerly 1444
Military Cemetery/Memorial Essex farm Cemetery
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial III.E.23
Country of Cemetery/Memorial Belgium
Medals Awarded Victory and British War medals
Date and Circumstances of Death Killed in Action at Ypres on 1st September 1916 aged 21 yrs
Biographical Details Known The 1911 census places this family at Tawelfryn, Mold. The father, David Evans Jones 44 was a book keeper in the drapery trade. He had been born in Gwernymynydd. His wife was Catherine 44 born in Llanferres and their children were Robert Parry 18 a grocer's apprentice, Thomas Parry 15 a junior clerk working for an auctioneer, The girls- Mary Elizabeth 13, Gwendoline Parry 10 and Francis Jane 7 were all at school.
Dave Norton, a Flintshire resident serving in the RAF, visited Belgium on a battle sites tour in December 2010. Dave kindly tracked down the cemeteries and graves of a number of 'our' soldiers and photographed them. He visited Essex Farm Cemetery where Thomas Parry Jones is buried
56824 Private
Thomas Parry Jones
Royal Wesh Fusiliers
1st September 1916
Many thanks to Dave Norton for making this photographic record for the website
Thomas Parry Jones
Royal Wesh Fusiliers
1st September 1916
Many thanks to Dave Norton for making this photographic record for the website
