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LOCAL INTEREST - A First World War Killed in Action medal trio and death plaque to 11519 Private Albert Jones, 6th King's Shropshire Light Infantry. 1914-15 Star, 1914-18 War Medal and Victory Medal named to "11519 PTE. A. JONES SHROPS. L.I". Sold together with a small amount of photocopied research. Footnote:The 6th Service Battalion was formed by companies at different towns in the county, and it left the depot for Blacktown on 10th September 1914. The Battalion became a unit of the 60th Brigade and, on 21st/22nd July 1915, entrained for Folkestone en route to Boulogne. Pte. Jones was killed in action on 13th August 1915, aged 24, and buried at the Rue-du-Bois Military Cemetary, Fleuxbaix (Grave reference I.A.22). The unit war diary for 13th August 1915, 6th Battalion at Rouge de Bout and trenches at Petillon: "Casualties during the day - 1 man killed (gunshot wound to the head), 1 man seriously wounded (gunshot wound to head) and 1 man slightly wounded (remained at duty). 8.30pm "A" Company to relieve "D" Company and two platoons of "B" Company in the trenches." Albert Jones was the man killed on this day and he was the first man from the 6th Battalion to be killed in action. Sergeant E.S. Williams was the man seriously wounded and later died of his wounds. Thomas Albert Jones, known as Albert, was born in 1891 at Rushbury, near Munslow, Craven Arms. He was the son of John and Jane Jones and the husband of Rose Elizabeth Jones of 82, Elkington Street, Aston, Birmingham. He enlisted at Ludlow in late August 1914 and landed in Franche on 24th July 1915. He is commemorated on the War Memorials both at Ludlow and Wistantow.
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