Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

As a child growing up I often asked my grandfather what did he do during the war. He would respond that he was in the home guard and that his flat feet resulted in him being unable to be sent overseas to serve. Of course as a child the only home guard I could imagine was Dad’s Army!
Glyn Jones, like many people at the time, had an interesting and no doubt difficult life. He was the youngest of 10 children born when his mother was in her late forties. She died when he was six and he was shuffled off to an older sister to be raised with her two children. Many of his older brothers had already taken their chances and sailed to Australia seeking a better life. When he was 13, he travelled on his own from England via ship to Australia by way of Perth before disembarking in Melbourne. His brothers organised for him to work on a farm at Kerang in Victoria and later he would become a tram driver in Melbourne. During the war he met and married by grandmother Violet Duvanel and in August 1941 his first child was born. After the war he went on to buy an electrical business in Hawthorn before selling up in the 1970s and moving to Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
He never did talk about what his actually did during the war so to this day part of his remarkable life remains a mystery.