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Name Walter Jones
Regiment 784th M.T. Coy Army Service Corps
Service Rank and Number Private DM12/195035
Military Cemetery/Memorial Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial XV.F.11
Country of Cemetery/Memorial Iraq
Medals Awarded Victory and British War medals
Date and Circumstances of Death Died of heatstroke in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) on 12th July 1917 aged 35 yrs
Biographical Details Known The 1911 census tells us that he was born in 1883 in Gwernymynydd. He was a 28 year old single man who worked as a shop assistant in a grocers'. He lived in Blackbrook Cottage with his widowed mother, Margaret, his 18 year old sister Gwladys - a dressmaker's assistant, his 16 year old brother Peter Idris a coal miner and Idris an 8 year old nephew.
This soldier is also named on Sychdyn's War Memorial. Follow the link to the Sychdyn website. http://www.northopwm.com/walter_jones.html