Edwin Robert JONES

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Service Number:	7526
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	8th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Burnie, Tasmania, Australia, 15 March 1898
Home Town:	Trafalgar, Baw Baw, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 9 August 1918, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial France, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

21 Nov 1917:	Involvement Private, 7526, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
21 Nov 1917:	Embarked Private, 7526, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne

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