JONES, John
| Service Number: | 594 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 March 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bendoc, Victoria, Australia., 15 March 1893 |
| Home Town: | Singleton, Northumberland, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tram Conductor |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 5 August 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Serre Road Cemetery No.2 Beaumont Hamel, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Singleton War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 594, 20th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW. | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 594, 20th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 594, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
John JONES (Service Number 594) was born on 15th March 1893 at Bendoc Victoria, which is located near the eastern section of the border between NSW and Victoria. Although he gave his ‘trade or calling’ upon the later enlistment as ‘Boilermaker’, Jones worked for the NSW Government Railways and Tramways as a casual tram conductor, commencing only a few days after the declaration of war. He was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces less than six months later.
Jones enlisted at Liverpool on 17th March 1915 and, being unmarried, gave his mother as his next of kin.
He left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Berrima’ on 25th June 1915. He was allotted to the 20th Australian Infantry Battalion. He disembarked at Alexandria, ex Mudros, on 9th January 1916. Mudros was the harbour on the island Lemnos used as a base during the Gallipoli Campaign. 9th January is a common date for soldiers evacuating Gallipoli to reach Egypt.
He was almost immediately hospitalised with appendicitis and this took a month to treat. Although he returned to his unit on 14th March 1916, he was within three days stuck off the strength as medically unfit. It was a further month before he was ready to re-join his unit and proceed to France through Marseilles. He reached that port in June.
Jack Jones, the name he went by according to his brother who was also serving, was killed in action in France on 5th August 1916 at Pozières.
In 1928 in the course of rationalisation of cemeteries after the war, the Imperial War Graves Commission came upon Jones’ remains, positively identified by his disc. The remains were re-interred at Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, Beaumont Hamel.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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