JONES, Francis John
| Service Number: | 7116 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 October 1916, Kalgoorlie, WA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Clunes, Victoria, Australia, 1876 |
| Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Clunes State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 6 August 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Boulder Roll of Honor, Boulder Roll of Honour Board, Clunes War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7116, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Kalgoorlie, WA | |
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| 23 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 7116, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 7116, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Berrima, Fremantle | |
| 6 Aug 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 7116, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Third Ypres, Messines |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Francis John Jones enlisted in the AIF at Kalgoorlie, WA on 8 October 1916, aged 40.
He embarked overseas on 23 December 1916 and arrived in Devonport, England on 16 February 1917, where he joined the 4th (Brigade) Training Battalion at its Codford Camp on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire on 24 February 1917.
After three months training, he left England and arrived in France on 23 May 1917, where he was formally taken on strength of the 16th Battalion, then in the field in the Messines area in Belgium, on 11 June 1917.
The battalion moved back into the line in front of Messines on 3 August 1917 and were subjected to several heavy artillery bombardments over the next week, and it was here that Pte Francis John Jones was killed in action on 6 August 1917.
His body was never recovered, and he has no known grave.
He is remembered on Panel 17 of the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Source: Extract from "Clunes War Memorial WW1" by Robert Wight, June 2022.