Jones, Thomas

Name of Researcher / Enw’r ymchwylydd: Geoffrey Alexander Mitchell.
Name of Memorial / Enw’r gofeb: Rhyl War Memorial.
Regiment/Catrawd: 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Service Rank and Number / Rheng gwasanaeth a rhif: Private No. 39844.
Military Cemetery/Memorial / Fynwent milwrol: Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen.
Ref No Grave or Memorial / Rhif cyfeirnod bedd: Panel 63 to 65.
Country of Cemetery or Memorial / Gwlad y fynwent neu gofeb: Belgium.
Medals Awarded / Medalau a ddyfarnwyd: British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Date of Death / Dyddiad Marwolaeth: 29 September 1917
Circumstances of Death / Dyddiad ac amgylchiadau marwolaeth:
Killed in action during the Battle of Ypres on the 26th September 1917
Commonwealth War Grave Certificate / Tystysgrif Bedd Rhyfel y GymanwladView certificate

Married to Matilda Jones and lived at 5 Ty Newydd Terrace, Rhyl, Flintshire.

Photograph taken on Saturday 8 April 2017 by Geoffrey Mitchell of Panels 63 to 65 at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium showing the name of Private 39844 T Jones.

Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Thomas Jones is also remembered on a Remembrance Plaque at The Royal Alexandra Hospital, Marine Drive, Rhyl, Flintshire and on The North Wales Heroes Memorial Arch, Deiniol Road, Bangor, North Wales.

There is no Flintshire Roll of Honour card for him at the County Archives Office, Hawarden, Flintshire.

Flintshire War Memorials

Jones, Thomas

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