JONES, Daniel Thomas
| Service Number: | 2558 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 April 1916, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 46th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Clunes, Victoria, Australia, 1884 |
| Home Town: | Clunes, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Clunes State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed In Action, France, 11 April 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Clunes War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2558, 46th Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 7 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 2558, 46th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Sydney embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 2558, 46th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Sydney, Melbourne | |
| 11 Apr 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2558, 46th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (First) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Daniel Jones enlisted in the AIF in Melbourne on 27 April 1916, aged 32.
He embarked overseas on 7 September 1916 and arrived in Plymouth, England on 29 October 1916, where he was posted to the 12th (Brigade) Training Battalion at its Codford Camp, on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, on 16 November 1916.
He left England on 21 December and arrived in France the next day, where he eventually joined the 46th Battalion in the field on 27 January 1917.
In mid-February 1917, the Germans strategically withdrew large sections of their defences back to the newly constructed Hindenburg Line, and the allied troops followed and harassed them as they went.
On 11 April 1917, a large-scale assault on the village of Bullecourt, part of the new German defences, was undertaken and failed dismally with heavy casualties, and it was here that Pte Daniel Jones was killed in action on the same day.
His body was never recovered, and he has no known grave.
He is remembered on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux.
Source: Extract from "Clunes War Memorial WW1" by Robert Wight, June 2022.
Biography contributed by Peter Rankin
Enlisted and served as Daniel Jones
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