JONES, Edward Joseph
| Service Number: | 4810 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 January 1916, Enlisted at Casula. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wellington, New South Wales, Australia, 25 January 1892 |
| Home Town: | Wellington, Wellington, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 16 November 1916, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), Wellington Cenotaph, Wellington Hall of Memory Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4810, 20th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Casula. | |
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| 13 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 4810, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 4810, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Edward Joseph JONES (Service Number 4810) was born on 25th January 1892 at Wellington, NSW. He began work for the NSW Government Railways as an office boy in the Locomotive Branch at Bathurst in February 1912. He progressed to junior clerk and then clerk on his 21st birthday. A few months later he transferred to Eveleigh as a timekeeper. He later became a 7th class clerk in the Locomotive Accountant’s Office. It was from this position that he enlisted in the Expeditionary Forces on 15th January 1916. He enlisted at Casula. Being unmarried, he gave his father, still living at Wellington, as his next of kin. He was allotted to the 12th Reinforcements to the 20th Battalion.
Jones left Australia aboard HMT ‘Ceramic’ on 13th April 1916. By September he was at Rollestone, England. It was there that he had to answer charges of being Absent Without Leave. On 16th September 1916 he proceeded overseas to France and was taken on the strength of the 20th Battalion. A month later he had a short hospitalisation with Scabies. He re-joined his unit on 16th October.
On 16th November he was posted missing. It was not until many months later, April 1917, that a ruling was made that he had in fact been killed that day.
.On 9th March 1917 advice was received from the 3rd Battalion that his body had been found by them and buried. His identity disc and personal effects were forwarded. The location has been lost and Jones has no known grave. He is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial in France.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.