JONES, Robert David
| Service Number: | 101 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 17 October 1880 |
| Home Town: | Boolaroo, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Cooks Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 7 December 1941, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW BAPTIST-E NE. 33. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 101, 34th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 101, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 101, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 5 Dec 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 101, 34th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
A Forgotten Digger of The Great War and Sandgate Cemetery.
79 years ago today, on the Monday of the 8th December 1941, Private Robert David Jones, 34th Battalion (Reg No-101), miner from Sixth Street, Boolaroo, New South Wales and Delaney's Hotel, Cooks Hill, N.S.W., father of two (Beryl and Thomas), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 61. BAPTIST-E NE. 33.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 17th October 1880 to Thomas John and Sarah Jones nee Thacher; husband of Florence Jones nee Dodds or Dodge (married 1903, died?), Robert enlisted January 1916 at Wallsend, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital - 3.2.1917 (influenza), Robert returned home October 1919, being discharged on the 5th December 1919.
Mr Jones’s name has been inscribed on the Wallsend Soldiers' Memorial (photos, unveiled on the 24th May 1919, 371 names now inscribed, 75 fallen). Name possibly inscribed on the Boolaroo District Roll of Honour.
I located Robert resting in an unmarked grave, forgotten, so September 2019 I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
An application for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip submitted October 2020. A decision is still pending.
Lest We Forget.
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