Name
Douglas Llewellyn Jones
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/08/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Lincolnshire Regiment
“B” Company, 6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 35 to 37 and 162 to 162A.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 28 Mar 1895 in Tallington Vicarage, Stamford son of the Rev. John David and Ethel Lina Maud Mary (Carroll) Jones of 6 Queensway, Lincoln. Educated at Haileybury College 1909-13 and Hatfield Hall, Durham where he was studying to take holy orders. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant the Lincolnshire Regiment in Jan 1915, promoted to Lieutenant and Captain on 20 Jul 1917. He served at Gallipoli from 6 Oct 1915, Egypt and then in France and was wounded by a shell and then killed by a sniper in action at Langemarck.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
