JONES, William Angus
| Service Number: | 3310 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 February 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 41st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Clarence River, New South Wales, Australia, September 1886 |
| Home Town: | Lismore, Lismore Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 17 April 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery Plot I. Row D. Grave 3 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brisbane 41st Battalion Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lismore & District Memorial Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Feb 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3310 | |
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| 14 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 3310, 41st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 14 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 3310, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 12 Feb 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3310, 41st Infantry Battalion, taken on strength |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Julianne Ryan
Born September 1886, Clarence River, New South Wales
Father Alexanda Jones and Mother Hellen Jones.
Wife: Mrs Casselia May Jones, Foleys Road, South Lismore, New South Wales
and two children
Biography contributed by John Oakes
William Angus JONES (Service Number 3310) was born on 8th August 1886 at Woodford Island in the Clarence River NSW. He was as a temporary labourer in the Locomotive Branch of the NSW Railways at Lismore commencing on 23rd June 1916. Eight months later he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces.
Jones enlisted at Lismore on 12th February 1917 and at that time was more than 30-years-old, married to Casselia, whom he named as next of kin, and they had two children.
He left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Honorata’ on 14th June 1917. The ship reached Liverpool, England, on 25th August 1917. On the voyage Jones had contracted Influenza. Once in England Jones was hospitalised with mumps. After he had recovered from that illness, he was marched in to the 9th Training Battalion but had further bouts of illness and hospitalisation such that he did not proceed overseas to France until February 1918. He was taken on the strength of the 41st Battalion.
He was killed in action on 17th April 1918. He was at first buried in the vicinity of Sailly-le-Sec (Somme), but soon re-buried at Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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