Frederick JONES

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Service Number:	2181
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	24th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Southport, Lancashire, England., date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 22 August 1916, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

27 Sep 1915:	Involvement Private, 2181, 24th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
27 Sep 1915:	Embarked Private, 2181, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne

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He was 28 and the son of Frederick and Harriet Jones; husband of Mary Lloyd Jones, of 68, Argyle St., Moonee Ponds, Victoria.

He is one of seven Australian soldier casualties of the Great War honoured on the Southport War Memorial but 3 of these cannot be verified; they are:

Corporal J F FARAGHER

Sergeant A F HORTON

Corporal R MCGILL

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