JONES, Benjamin
| Service Number: | 911 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Howard, Queensland, Australia, 9 July 1886 |
| Home Town: | Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Tighes Hill, Newcastle - New South Wales, Australia, 3 January 1966, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) K SW. 34. |
| Memorials: | Merewether Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 911, 30th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 911, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 911, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 31 May 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 911, 30th Infantry Battalion, GSW head, severe | |
| 3 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 911, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD synovitis knee |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting peacefully at Sandgate Cemetery.
54 years ago today, on the 5th January 1966, Private Benjamin Jones, 30th Battalion (Reg No-911), miner from Morgan Street, Merewether, New South Wales and 1 Union Street, Tighes Hill, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 79. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) K SW. 34.
Born at Howard, Queensland on the 9th July 1886 to Robert and Catherine Jones nee Powell of Ridge Street, Merewether New South Wales; husband of Lucy A Jones nee Prosser (married 1923, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 1961), Benjamin enlisted July 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Wounded in action 31.5.1916 (GSW head, severe), and admitted to hospital 23.1.1918 (synovitis left knee), Benjamin was invalided home February 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 3rd May 1919.
Mr Jones’s name has been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates and the Newcastle South Public School Roll of Honour (photo, unveiled on the 13th December 1918, 220 names now inscribed, 36 Fallen).
There is no indication inscribed on the headstone to tell us of his sacrifice for God, King and Country, so I have placed poppies to honour his service with the 1st A.I.F.
Lest We Forget.
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