Name
Brynley Lewis Jones
1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/12/1918
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Monmouthshire Regiment
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ABERGAVENNY NEW CEMETERY
A. 429.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Broxbourne memorials
Pre War
Brynley Lewis JONES was born in Bedwellty, Monmouthshire,
Wales, in 1885, son of Griffith Humphrey Jones a Draper and Sarah Ann Jones
(nee Owens). One of five children.
1891 Census records Brynley aged 5, living with his parents,
three brothers and sister Bronwin (9 months) at 6 Market Street, Bedwellty,
Monmouthshire, they had four boarders all in the Drapery Trade and a liv-in
Domestic Servant.
1901 Census, Brynley (15), his parents, brother Wyndham (19)
and sister Bronwin (10) are still living at 6 Market Street, Bedwellty, they
have a liv-in Domestic Servant and a Boarder.
1911 Census, Brynley is recorded as a teacher, living with
his parents, and brother Wyndham (a Civil Engineer) at The Laurels, Llanfoist,
Monmouthshire, Wales.
Brynley married Nora Francis Meredith Lewis, the daughter of
Major John Meredith Douglas Lewis and Gwyneth Maud Lewis in mid-1917, in Ware,
Herts. They went on to have a son Lewis Francis Richard Jones, born in
Broxbourne, Herts, in 1918.
Wartime Service
Brynley served with the 3rd Battalion,
Monmouthshire Regiment, Territorial Force, (it is not known if he was serving
with the Territorial Force before the outbreak of the war), his medal index
card (MID) records he was a Private, and commissioned in February 1915,
Lieutenant then Captain. Brynley served on the Western Front. He died of Pneumonia
on 26th December 1918, at The Rest Camp, Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey,
Wales. He is buried in Abergavenny New Cemetery, Abergavenny, Wales. Grave Ref:
A. 429.
Additional Information
1921 Census records Nora and son Lewis living with her
sisters Maud and Lilian Lewis at St Catherine's”, Hoddesdon, Herts. They had
four liv-in Domestic Servants.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
