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Unit |
13th Battalion,
1st Reinforcements |
Rank |
Private |
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Date of Enlistment |
27
October 1914 |
Service no. |
1198 |
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Date of Death |
12 May 1915 |
Place of Death |
At sea -
on H.S. Gascon, from a gun shot wound to the abdomen
received on 11 May. He was buried at sea, 3 miles off Gaba
Tepe. |
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Age |
33 |
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Cemetery |
Lone Pine Memorial |
Details |
Panel 38 |
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Epitaph |
- |
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Next of Kin |
(Father)
JONES Edwin |
Address |
19 George
St, Pentnewyndd, Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Wales |
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Parents |
Edwin and
Martha Jones |
Address |
19 George
St, Pentnewyndd, Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Wales |
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Date of Birth |
20
October 1881 |
Place of birth |
Wales,
Abersychan |
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General |
13th Battalion History – 12 May 1915
From the 8th to the 13th we were again
in the front line on Pope’s and Quinn’s, and this period was a specially
trying one, for not only did the enemy burst shrapnel right into our
trenches, but it rained heavily, which rain was most tormenting to the
troops on Pope’s, preventing any cooking, and, during the first month on
Gallipoli, each did his own cooking, most various being the dishes and
the utensils devised, ground biscuit fried in bacon fat being the
commonest, the grater being a jam-tin holed with a bayonet. And there
was no sleep for the Battalion was continually standing-to.
WHITE, Thomas A, The History of the
13th Battalion AIF, page 37 (source 172) |
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