Jones, Luther

Name of Researcher / Enw’r ymchwylydd: Geoffrey Alexander Mitchell.
Name of Memorial / Enw’r gofeb: Bagillt War Memorial.
Regiment/Catrawd: ‘C’ Company, 25th (Montgomeryshire and Welsh Horse Yeomanry).
Service Rank and Number / Rheng gwasanaeth a rhif: Private No. 60616.
Military Cemetery/Memorial / Fynwent milwrol: Vis-En-Artois Memorial.
Ref No Grave or Memorial / Rhif cyfeirnod bedd: Panel 6.
Country of Cemetery or Memorial / Gwlad y fynwent neu gofeb: France
Medals Awarded / Medalau a ddyfarnwyd: Victory Medal., British War Medal.
Date of Death / Dyddiad Marwolaeth: 21 August 1918
Circumstances of Death / Dyddiad ac amgylchiadau marwolaeth:
Killed in Action on Saturday 21st September 1918 during the battle of the Somme, aged 20 years.
Commonwealth War Grave Certificate / Tystysgrif Bedd Rhyfel y GymanwladView certificate

Luther Jones was born in Bagillt, Flintshire during 1898.

The 1901 Census tells us that the family lived at 12 Neston View, Bagillt. The head of the family was George Jones aged 42, who was employed at the Bettisfield Colliery as a Coal Miner. His wife was Catherine Jones (nee Warburton) aged 39 and their 5 (five) children were Benjamin Jones aged 16, who was also working at Bettisfield the Colliery as a Coal Miner. Myfanwy Jones aged 17, Sarah Jones aged 13, Mary Catherine Jones aged 8 and Luther Jones aged 3. Also living with them was Sarah Warburton, Catherine’s mother.

By 1911 Benjamin Jones and Myfanwy Jones had married and left the family home.

Luther enlisted in Flint. He was Killed in Action on Saturday 21st September 1918 during the battle of the Somme, aged 20 years.

On 22 December 1919 a payment of £17.14s.2d was made by the War Office to his father, George Jones, this being monies owed to his son Luther and included a War Gratuity of £11.0s.0d.

He is also remembered on The North Wales Heroes Memorial Arch, Deiniol Road, Bangor, North Wales.

There is a Flintshire Roll of Honour Card for Luther Jones at the County Archives Office, Hawarden. Details of his medals were obtained from ancestry.co.uk

Vis-En Artois and Haucourt are villages on the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai, about 10 kilometres south-east of Arras. The Memorial is the backdrop to the Vis-En-Artois British Military Cemetery, which is west of Haucourt, on the north side of the main road. This Memorial bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the advance to victory in Picardy and Artois, between the Somme and Loos, who have no known grave.

Flintshire War Memorials

Jones, Luther

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