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Major Llewellyn James JONES
West India Regiment attached to the 7th (Service) Battalion East Surrey Regiment Date of birth: 22nd June 1881 Date of death: 16th March 1916 Died of wounds aged 34 Buried at Bethune Town Cemetery Plot II Row M Grave 11
Llewellyn James Jones was born at The Vicarage, Herriard near Basingstoke in Hampshire on the 22nd of June 1881 the son of the Reverend George Jones, Rector of Dummer, and Rosamond Alice (nee Ward) Jones of Dummer Rectory, Basingstoke. He was educated at Lancing College where he won an Exhibition and was in School House from September 1895 to October 1896. He joined the army, rising to the rank of Lance Sergeant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers on the 11th of March 1905. He was seconded to the West India Regiment on the 20th of May 1905 being promoted to Lieutenant on the 6th of January 1909 and transferred to the West India Regiment on the 6th of March 1909. He was promoted to Temporary Captain in the East Surrey Regiment on the 29th of October 1914 and was confirmed in that rank on the 27th of January 1916. According to records he embarked for France "prior to August 1915" which indicates that he is most likely to have landed with his battalion at Boulogne on the 2nd of June 1915. On the 10th of March 1916 the 7th Battalion East Surrey Regiment went into trenches opposite the Hohenzollern Redoubt near Loos relieving the 6th Battalion Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). During this tour of the trenches, described by the battalion war diary as "uneventful", Llewellyn Jones was wounded on the 12th of March and died four days later. He is commemorated on the war memorial plaque at All Saints' Church, Dummer near Basingstoke.

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