JONES, George
| Service Numbers: | 3803, 3803A |
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| Enlisted: | 14 August 1915, Enlisted at Holdsworthy (now Holsworthy). |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia, March 1893 |
| Home Town: | Five Dock, Canada Bay, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Porter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 11 April 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3803, 4th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Holdsworthy (now Holsworthy). | |
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| 30 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3803, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3803, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Sydney | |
| 19 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 13th Infantry Battalion, Transferred in Egypt after spending two days in 1st Battalion. | |
| 7 Aug 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3803, 13th Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wound to his right arm and wrist. Evacuated to England. | |
| 11 Apr 1917: | Involvement Private, 3803A, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3803A awm_unit: 13 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-04-11 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
George JONES was born at Camperdown about March 1893. He worked at a railway porter.
He was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces on 14th August 1915.
George Jones, (Service Number 3803A) enlisted at Holdsworthy on 14th August 1915. He gave his ‘trade of calling’ as ‘Railway Porter’. He gave his father living in Fivedock as his next of kin.
Before embarkation from Australia, Jones married Hanna and the next of kin entry is changed to her name.
He left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Medic’ on 30th December 1915. Initially he was allocated as part of the 12th Reinforcement to the 4th Battalion, but once in Egypt he was transferred to the 1st Battalion at Serapeum on 17th March 1916. Jones career with the 1st Battalion was just two days until he was again transferred to the 13th Battalion. A period of hospitalisation with illness ensued in April and he embarked at Alexandria for France in June, passing through Marseilles a week later.
Before the end of the month he was disciplined for being Absent Without Leave. He received a punishment of seven days confined to barracks and the forfeiture of a day’s pay. This was followed immediately by another hospitalisation, thias time for an ingrown toenail. He returned to his unit on 8th July, only to be hospitalised again, for an unspecified ailment a week later.
On 7th August 1916 he was wounded with a gunshot to his right arm and wrist. This was serious enough to require evacuation to England. It was October before he had recovered, and, after furlough, returned to France in early December.
He was killed in action on 11th April 1917. He has no known grave. He is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
George and Hannah Jones had a child, Roma Mary Jane. In July 1917, when a pension was granted to the infant, she and Hannah were living with a Mrs Correy of Fivedock.
There was dispute between Jones’ wife and mother as to the possession of his personal effects. They were wrongly delivered to Hannah but as the Will gave them to his Mother Mary Ann, the military demanded their return. The items in question were a pipe, a shaving brush and a testament.
At some time before 1923, Hannah Jones re-married.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.