Fusiliers, _s._ of James Johnson, of 1, Field Street, North
Road, Darlington; _b._ Stockton-on-Tees, 20 Nov. 1889; educ.
St. Patrick’s School, Coatbridge, Scotland; enlisted 2nd Royal Scots
Fusiliers, 8 Aug. 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France
and died a prisoner of war at Field Moorslede, Germany, 19 June, 1915,
of wounds received at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, on the preceding 12
March. Buried in Moorslede Parish Cemetery; _unm._
=JOHNSON, LUTHER VINCENT BURGOYNE=, Capt., 8th Batt. Durham L.I.
(T.F.), eldest _s._ of Major John Burgoyne Johnson, of Brockley,
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, 8th Batt. Durham L.I., J.P., co. Durham; _b._
Middlemoor, near Richmond, co. York, 5 Sept. 1890; educ. Aysgarth
School, Newton-le-Willows, Yorkshire; Charterhouse, Godalming; and
King’s College, Cambridge (B.A.); joined the Hamsteels Company of the
8th Durham L.I., being gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 April, 1910; Lieut. 12
May, 1912, and Capt. 12 Sept. 1914. He went to the Front in April, and
was killed a few days later, in action at Grafenstafel Ridge, N.E.
of Ypres, 25 April, 1915. At the outbreak of war Capt. Johnson was
serving his articles as a solicitor with the firm of Messrs. Cochrane
and Belk, of Middlesbrough. He was well known in cricket and football
circles, and had qualified in musketry course and machine gun course
(distinguished) at Hythe.
[Illustration: =Luther V. B. Johnson=]
=JOHNSON, RICHARD DIGBY=, Major, 3rd, attd. 2nd Battn. Royal
Dublin Fusiliers, yr. surviving _s._ of the late Edward Mayson
Johnson, by his wife, Emma Jane (28, St. Mary’s, York), dau. of the
late William Emmerson Bowman, and gdson. of the late Richard Johnson,
of York, the well-known racing judge and handicapper in the North of
England in the middle of the last century; _b._ York, 30 June,
1876; educ. St. Peter’s, York; joined the staff of the York City and
County Bank at the age of 17, leaving it four years later for a tour
round the world, and on his arrival at Capetown, the South African War
broke out; he at once returned to England and obtained a commission in
the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, June 1900. He served
with the 11th Mounted Infantry in the South African War, 1901–2; took
part in the operations in the Transvaal, Aug. 1901 to 31 May, 1902;
was invalided home with enteric fever, receiving for his services the
Queen’s medal with four clasps. On returning home he qualified at
Hythe, and became Instructor of Musketry to the Kildare Battn. and he
was promoted Capt. 7 Oct. 1905, and Major 18 Dec. 1914. He went to
France to join the 2nd Battn. of his regt. early in Dec.; was wounded
near St. Julien, 25 April, 1915, and granted a week’s leave; rejoined
his regt. on 10 May, falling in action a fortnight later, 24 May, 1915.
He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch, 31 May
[London Gazette, 22 June] 1915. Major Johnson was a freeman of the City
of York, and had the Coronation medal. He _m._ at St. Michael’s
Church, Camberley, Surrey, 21 Sept. 1904, Claudine Trower (Camoys,
Braintree), 6th dau. of Col. Theodore William Hogg, of Eastwick,
Camberley, Surrey, late Indian Staff Corps, and had a son and dau.:
Richard Edward Digby, _b._ 16 Dec. 1911; and Claudine Blanche
Mayson, _b._ 8 July 1905.
[Illustration: =Richard Digby Johnson.=]
=JOHNSON, ROBERT WARREN=, Capt., R.N., H.M.S. Cressy, 2nd
_s._ of the late Vice-Admiral John Ormsby Johnson, R.N., by his
wife, Edith Renira, dau. of the Rev. Charles Edward Twyford; _b._
Dovercourt, co. Essex, 10 May 1867; educ. Cornwallis, Maidenhead, and
Foster’s Naval Academy, Stubbington; entered the Service as a Cadet, 15
July, 1881; appointed Midshipman, 13 Nov. 1883; promoted Sub.-Lieut.
13 Nov. 1887; Lieut. 1 April, 1891; Commander, 31 Dec. 1904, and Capt.
31 Dec. 1910, and after the outbreak of war, was appointed to the
command of H.M.S. Cressy. He was lost when that cruiser, together with
the Aboukir and the Hogue, was sunk by torpedo-fire while engaged in
patrolling off the Dutch coast on the morning of 22 Sept. 1914. One of
the surviving officers of the ill-fated Cressy wrote: “Our Commander,
Capt. Johnson, died like a hero; he had his confidential book lashed
to his arm when he went down. He deserved ten Victoria Crosses, for he
stopped on board until the last moment,” and Stoker William Wake, of
Sunderland, another survivor, stated that the Capt. remained on the
bridge until he was up to his neck in water, and that he was cheered
again and again by the men as he sank out of sight. A Petty Officer
wrote that the last he saw of the Capt. was when he called out to a
young sailor and gave him the bit of plank on which he was supporting
himself, remarking: “Here, you are a young chap, take this.” Capt.
Johnson _m._ at Portsmouth, 11 July, 1906, Grace Isobel (Fintry
Cottage, Warblington, Havant), dau. of the late Algernon Paley,
Barrister-at-Law, and had two sons and a dau.: John Paley, _b._ 12
June, 1907; Peter Warren, _b._ 13 Nov. 1908; and Elisabeth Freda,
_b._ 11 Sept. 1913.
[Illustration: =Robert Warren Johnson.=]
=JOHNSON, THOMAS=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8948), 20661,
H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=JOHNSON, THOMAS=, Private, No. 10850, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.;
served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in
action 14 Oct. 1914.
=JOHNSON, WALTER=, Private, No. 6700, 1st Battn. Scots Guards;
_b._ Warrington, co. Lancaster; enlisted 5 March, 1907; served
with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action,
26 Oct. 1914.
=JOHNSON, WALTER=, Private, No. 2831, 3rd Battn. Coldstream
Guards; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders;
reported missing after the fighting at St. Julien, 21 Oct. 1914, and
later to have been killed on or about that date, and to have been
buried by the German authorities in the Cemetery of Ehrenfriedhof 2,
near Poelkapelle; _m._
=JOHNSON, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 15485, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=JOHNSON, WILLIAM HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5231), 205964, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=CROOM-JOHNSON, BRIAN=, Lieut., 4th (Denbighshire) Battn. Royal
Welch Fusiliers (T.F.), yst. _s._ of Harry Croom-Johnson, of the
Elms, Wrexham, J.P., by his wife, Elizabeth Roden, dau. of the late
George Bradley, of Wrexham, J.P.; _b._ Wrexham, 16 Sept. 1890;
educ. Mostyn House School, Cheshire, and Clifton College (Spence’s
House); after leaving school adopted the profession of an engineer and
on the completion of three years’ articles was appointed Assistant
Engineer to the Wrexham and East Denbighshire Water Company. He was
given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 4th (Territorial) Battn. of the Welch
Fusiliers, 3 May, 1913, and promoted Lieut. 8 Sept. 1914. He left
for France 5 Nov. 1914, and on the 23 Dec. following was personally
complimented by the General Officer Commanding for leading a party of
30 men laden with ammunition to the firing-trenches and carrying out
this duty without a single casualty, though under fire the whole time;
and on 25 Jan. 1915, he was one of three officers who, with a few men,
recaptured a trench at Givenchy from which they had been ordered to
retire and made prisoners 35 Germans, including two officers. He was
killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, France, 9 May, 1915, while
leading his company against the German trenches; _unm._
[Illustration: =Brian Croom-Johnson.=]
=VINER-JOHNSON, PERCY JOSEPH VINER=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd.
1st Battn. Wiltshire Regt., yr. _s._ of the late Joseph Viner
Viner-Johnson, of Beech House, Market Lavington, co. Wilts, Capt.
Imperial Yeomanry (who served in the South African War, 1900–1902), by
his wife, Clara (The Nutgrove, Chew Magna, Bristol), dau. of the late
Thomas Donders Perry, of Ealing; _b._ London 13 Oct. 1875; educ.
St. Paul’s School; served in the 1st Vol. Battn. King’s Royal Rifle
Corps from 1898 to 1902, when he went to South Africa, where he was
for some time A.R.M. at Harrismith, and afterwards Relief Magistrate
at various places in the Orange Free State. At home on leave when war
broke out, he obtained permission from the South African Government,
and was gazetted Capt. to 3rd Wiltshires, 18 Sept. 1914. He left
for France on 24 Dec. 1914, when he was attd. to the 1st Battn. and
commanded A Coy. and was killed in action at Spanbroek Molen, 12 March,
1915. Buried near Spanbroek Molen; _unm._ His Commanding Officer
wrote: “He fell most gallantly leading his men. His conduct was so
gallant and brave that, although he is now dead, I have recommended
him for the D.S.O. In addition to being a very gallant and brave man,
he was a most valuable officer, and his death is a very great loss to
his regiment. As a comrade he has endeared himself to all his brother
officers and men, and his death is deeply deplored by us all.” Capt.
Viner-Johnson was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s
Despatch of 31 May, 1915.
[Illustration: =Percy J. V. Viner-Johnson.=]
=JOHNSTON, BRUCE ALLEN=, L.-Corpl., No. 69474, B Coy. 26th Battn.
(New Brunswick Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Andrew
Charles Johnston, of Costigan, Victoria co., New Brunswick [_b._
there in 1849 of Scottish descent], by his wife, Sarah Jane, dau. of
Henry Bowmaster; _b._ Costigan, 18 Nov. 1889, educ. Public School
there; was a Farmer; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914, following the outbreak of
war; left Canada with the Second contingent on 12 June, 1915, and died
in Etaples, France, 13 Nov. 1915, from wounds in the head received in
action on the 11th. He was _unm._ and was buried in the Camiers
Road Cemetery, Etaples.
[Illustration: =Bruce Allen Johnston.=]
=JOHNSTON, GEORGE ALBERT=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4759),
293876, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=JOHNSTON, JAMES CECIL=, Capt. and Adjutant, 6th (Service)
Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, eldest _s._ of Robert Edgeworth
Johnston, of Glencore House, co. Fermanagh, by his wife, Edythe Grace,
dau. of John Reynolds Dickson, of Woodville and Tullaghan House, co.
Leitrim; _b._ Glencore House, co. Fermanagh, 29 Dec. 1880; educ.
Charterhouse and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unatt. 8 Jan. 1901;
posted to the 14th Hussars, 9 March following; served in the South
African War, 1901–2, taking part in the operations in the Orange River
Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps); and
resigned his commission in 1903. He was Deputy Ranger of the Curragh
of Kildare, 1910–12; Master of the Horse to the Earl of Aberdeen,
Lord-Lieut. of Ireland, 1910–15; High Sheriff co. Fermanagh, 1910;
and Private Secretary to Lord Aberdeen, 1912–15. On the outbreak of
war he offered his services and was gazetted Capt. 6th Royal Irish
Fusiliers, 28 Sept. 1914, being appointed Adjutant of the Battn., 20
Oct. following. He left for the Dardanelles with the 10th (Irish)
Division, under Major-Gen. Sir Bryan Mahon, and was killed in action
at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 9 Aug. following. His Commanding Officer,
Lieut.-Col. F. A. R. Greer, wrote; “We reached the point we were making
for, and your husband and I were trying to make out exactly how the
situation was, when a shell from some sort of machine gun came over
from our right front, caught me on the arm and exploded practically on
him. His death, of course, was instantaneous. I saw that much before I
had to clear out myself; there were none but dead and dying just there.
It will comfort you to know he died a brave and gallant soldier, looked
on by all of us as one of the best. I can safely add the sympathy
of every officer and man to mine. He died at the farthest point the
Battn. reached that day,” and a brother officer: “I saw Johnston in a
redoubt early next morning and during Sunday (8 Aug.), like most of
us, he was very tired that day, as we had no sleep and practically
no food. He was in good spirits, however. His death has been a great
blow to us, as he was very popular, and deservedly so, in the regt.
He was confident that he would come back all right.” Capt. Johnston
_m._ at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 28 Oct. 1903, Violet Myrtle (Rosemont,
Booterstown, Dublin), dau. of Samuel Abraham Walker Waters, Assistant
Inspector-Gen., Royal Irish Constabulary, and had three daus.: Myrtle,
_b._ 7 March, 1909; Marjorie Helen, _b._ 18 Jan. 1911; and
Mary Nuala, _b._ 29 May, 1914.
[Illustration: =James Cecil Johnston.=]
=JOHNSTON, JAMES HOGARTH=, Private, No. 29230, G Coy. 14th
Platoon, 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force,
2nd and only surviving _s._ of Patrick Johnston, of Broomhill,
Fivemiletown, co. Tyrone, by his wife, Susan Elliot, dau. of the late
James Hogarth Rutherfurd, of Kelso: _b._ Cecil Augher, co. Tyrone,
21 Dec. 1886; educ. Carntall, Clogher, N.S. and Portora Royal School,
Enniskillen; worked for a time at Combe Barbour’s Engineering Works,
and at those of McLean at Belfast: went to New Zealand in Nov. 1905
at the age of 19, and remained there five years; returned to Ireland,
and nine months later went to Winnipeg, Canada; joined the Canadian
Scottish at Winnipeg, Aug. 1914; came over with the 1st Contingent in
Oct.; left for France 4 Feb. and was killed in action in the heroic
charge of the Canadian Scottish near St. Julien, on the night of 23–24
April, 1915. at the beginning of the First Battle of Ypres; _unm._
[Illustration: =James H. Johnston.=]
=JOHNSTON, REUBEN JOHN=, Sick Berth Steward, 350469, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1915.
=JOHNSTON, ROBERT=, Armourer, 340521, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action
in the North Sea, 22 Sept, 1914.
=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 407, 9th Battn. Australian
Imperial Force; a native of co. Ayr; served in Egypt; took part in the
landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action
there that day.
=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5958), 188608, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914;
_m._
=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM HENRY, V.C.=, Capt. and Brevet Major, R.E.,
2nd _s._ of the late Major William Johnston. R.A.; _b._ at
Leith, 21 Dec. 1879; passed into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,
in 1897, and was gazetted to a commission in the Royal Engineers on
23 March, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 19 Nov. 1901, and Capt. 23 March,
1908. His first period of foreign service was passed in Gibraltar,
from 1900 to 1905, during part of which time he was employed under
the Intelligence Department. On his return to England he was attached
to the Survey Department, and on leaving it in 1908 was gazetted as a
General Staff Officer (3rd Grade) for service in China. From 11 July,
1908, to 26 Oct. 1911, he was employed in North China, travelling
extensively, while engaged on Intelligence work, in the course of which
he visited eleven of the eighteen provinces of China. During this time
he was also employed in surveying the boundary of the New Territory
of Hong Kong. In 1911 he was transferred to the South China Command
as General Staff Officer. At the expiration of this period, 27 July,
1912, he was employed at the War Office for about 11 months (2 Sept.
1912 to 9 Aug. 1913), in the geographical section. He entered the Staff
College, Camberley, in 1913, and began his course there in Jan. 1914.
After the declaration of war he was posted to the 59th Field Coy. R.E.,
went out with the Expeditionary Force and served with it throughout
the winter of 1914–5, including the retreat from Mons and the Battles
of the Aisne, the Marne, Neuve Chapelle, 1st and 2nd Battles of Ypres,
etc. He was four times mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s
Despatches [London Gazette, 19 Oct. and 25 Nov. 1914 and 17 Feb. and
22 June, 1915], and was awarded the Victoria Cross on 25 Nov. for
conspicuous gallantry “at Misy on 14 Sept., when, under a heavy fire
all day until 7 p.m., he worked with his own hands two rafts, bringing
back wounded and returning with ammunition, thus enabling the advanced
brigade to maintain its position across the river.” In March he was
appointed to the command of the 172nd Coy., and on 2 May, Brigade Major
of the 15th Infantry Brigade. He was made Brevet Major under date 3
June [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915], and was killed in action four
days later near Ypres, 7 June, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =William Henry Johnston.=]
=JOHNSTONE, MILLER=, Private, No. 1078, B Coy. 2nd Battn. 1st
Australian Expeditionary Force, yst. _s._ of the late Alexander
Johnstone, _b._ Bannockburn, co. Stirling, 12 March, 1892; educ.
Larbert, Stirling; went to Australia in Jan. 1913, and settled at
Lockhart, New South Wales, as an Agriculturalist; volunteered on the
outbreak of war and enlisted at Kennington, New South Wales, 27 Aug.
1914, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and died
of wounds on H.M. Hospital Ship Derfflinger, 29 April. The Chaplain
wrote that Johnstone had carried a wounded Lieut. down to the shore
to a place of safety and was returning to the firing line when he was
hit and mortally wounded. He was taken on board the hospital ship the
following day, and died at sea on his way to Alexandria; _unm._
[Illustration: =Miller Johnstone.=]
=JOHNSTONE, PETER=, Private, No. 2938, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots
(Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;
died 3 June, 1915, of wounds received in action near Ypres.
=JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 349, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots
(Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;
killed in action, 22 Dec. 1914.
=JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 8900, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards,
_s._ of William Johnstone, of Newton Stewart, co. Wigton;
_b._ Newton Stewart; enlisted 12 March, 1914; served with the
Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.
=HOPE-JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM GORDON TOLLEMACHE=, Lieut., 4th Battn.
Royal Fusiliers, formerly 32nd Lancers, Indian Army, 4th _s._ of
William James Hope-Johnstone, of Brownleigh, Feltham [descended from
the Hon. Charles Hope-Vere of Craigiehall, 2nd _s._ of Charles,
1st Earl of Hopetoun, K.T.], by his wife, Emily Mary, dau. of Capt.
Edward Bailie, 10th Hussars; _b._ Esher, co. Surrey, 5 July, 1887;
educ. Cheltenham and Sandhurst; received his commission as 2nd Lieut.
in the 6th Dragoon Guards, Feb. 1907, and was promoted Lieut. May,
1909. He transferred to the Indian Army in Sept. 1912, with the rank of
Squadron Officer in the 32nd Lancers and retired early in 1914. On the
outbreak of war he volunteered and was given a lieutenancy in the 4th
Royal Fusiliers, 5 Sept., left for France on 8 Oct. and was killed in
action at Laventie on the 25th of that month. His next elder brother,
Henry Murray, is now (1916) serving with the Royal Fusiliers.
[Illustration: =W. G. T. Hope-Johnstone.=]
=JOLLIFF, JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2928C., H.M.S. Hogue; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=JOLIFFE, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109240, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=JOLLIFFE, WILLIAM JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3133),
306590, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=JONES, ADRIAN HERBERT=, Private, No. 1632, 1/3rd Battn. (Royal
Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Herbert Daniel
Jones, of 35, Osterley Park Road, Southall, Clerk in charge of
Telegraph Dept. G.W.R. Southall Station, by his wife, Selina, dau.
of William Hughes, of the Park, Clee Hill, Ludlow, Salop; _b._
Shrewsbury, 6 May, 1895; educ. All Saints’ School, Shrewsbury, and
Featherstone Road School, Southall; was a clerk in the employ of the
Great Western Railway at the Hotel Paddington, and afterwards Clerk
Great Northern Railway, at King’s Cross; joined 1/3rd Royal Fusiliers,
July, 1912; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war
and left for Malta at the end of 1914; proceeded to France, 2 Jan.
1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle about
5.30 p.m. on 10 March following, during a successful attack on a part
of the German trenches which had held out all day; _unm._ One of
his officers wrote: “He died a very gallant death. The Army has lost
a very brave soldier.” From information received by his relatives it
would appear that in the charge in which he fell he showed conspicuous
courage and _sang froid_, and that his last words were: “Come on;
give me a leg up,” as he was getting over the German parapet. Private
Jones had a fine voice and was a member of the choir of Holy Trinity
Church, Southall. His elder brother, Gunner S. W. Jones, was drowned
while on active service, 21 July, 1916.
[Illustration: =Adrian Herbert Jones.=]
=JONES, ALFRED EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5794), S.S.
100725, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=JONES, ALFRED POOLE=, Private, No. 2214, 1/24th Battn. (The
Queen’s) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of the late Arthur
Daniel Jones, of 40, De Burgh Street, Cardiff, by his wife, Elizabeth
Annie (now the wife of James Newton Paterson, of 5, Western Drive,
Woodend Park, Grassendale Road, Liverpool), dau. of Jacob Lewis,
Farmer; _b._ Cardiff, 4 Nov. 1890; educ. Higher Grade School,
Cardiff; was in the milling and flour trade, first with Messrs. James
Thomas Co., Newport, Isle of Wight, and latterly with Messrs. H. N.
Bathgate & Co., London; joined the 24th London, 6 Aug. 1914; left for
France, 8 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 26 May
following, in an attack by his battn. and the 23rd London on the German
trenches. Buried, Givenchy, in the Soldiers’ cemetery, about half a
mile behind the trenches; _unm._ His Captain wrote: “We captured
the trenches which were our objective, but lost over half the battn.
in doing so. In C Coy. alone 44 were killed and 70 wounded.” A comrade
wrote: “When Alf fell, I ran down the slope to see what I could do for
him. He was lying on his back at the bottom. He said he was hit in the
stomach, but would not let me attend to him. ‘Never mind about me, get
on with the firing, lad,’ he said, and I had to, as our line was very
thin then.” This was the action in which L.-Corpl. Keyworth, of the
23rd London, won the V.C., and several other decorations were earned by
the officers and men of the two battns. engaged. Private Jones was a
keen footballer and played for his regt. on many occasions.
[Illustration: =Alfred Poole Jones.=]
=JONES, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 65503, 24th Battn. (Victoria
Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. _s._ of the late
William Jones; _b._ Sedgeley, 27 Jan. 1884; went to Canada in
June, 1912, and settled in Montreal. After the outbreak of war he
volunteered for service overseas, joined the Victoria Rifles in Oct.
1914, and after a period of training came over to England in May, 1915;
left for the Front, 15 Sept. 1915; and was killed in action in France
in his dug-out by a shell, 12 Oct. 1915, and was buried in the Canadian
Burial Ground; _unm._
=JONES, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14776, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=JONES, ARTHUR WYNN=, L.-Corpl., No. 2352, 1/5th Battn. the Welsh
Regt. (T.F.), third and yst. _s._ of Thomas Jones, of The Hall,
Llanfyllin, Solicitor, Town Clerk and Clerk to the County and Borough
Magistrates, by his wife, Elizabeth Alice, dau. of the late Thomas
Edwards, of Penybontfawr, Montgomeryshire; _b._ Llanfyllin, co.
Montgomery, 23 March, 1880; educ. The Grammar School, Oswestry; was
for many years Cashier in the National Provincial Bank, first at the
Horsefield Branch, Bristol, and then at Cowbridge Branch, Glamorgan;
enlisted soon after the declaration of war; was promoted L.-Corpl. 18
July, 1915; left England with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force,
and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 10 Aug. 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: Arthur Wynn Jones.]