Name
Frederick Arthur Jones
1881
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/09/1918
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
30590
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
IV. F. 15.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
GB Kent & Sons (Kent Brushes) Memorial, Apsley,
St Mary's Church Memorial, Apsley End,
Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorials,
Not on the Hertford memorials
Pre War
Frederick Arthur Jones was born in 1881 in Farnborough, nr Orpington, Dartford, Kent, the son of Henry and Emma Jones, and one of eleven children.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Hammerfield, Hemel Hempstead and his father was working as a Gardener/Domestic Servant. By the 1901 Census they had moved to South Hill Road, Boxmoor and he was living with his mother and siblings, the majority of whom were working at the paper mill where Frederick was a book binder. His father was not listed with them, although his mother, as head of the household was said to be married.
He married Annie Rammell Adams in St Mary's Church, Apsley End in the summer of 1909, and on the 1911 Census he was living with his wife and her sisters Nellie and Lily at Ebberns Road, Apsley, Hemel Hempstead, and working as a Brush Finisher (at Kent's Brushes). The sisters Nellie and Lily were working as book packers at the paper mill.
They had a son Leslie George Arthur born in Hemel Hempstead on 13 May 1913.
His widow later returned to her hometown of Totnes, Devon and gave her address as 5 Belgrave Road, Exeter on pension records. She remarried in 1919 to Reginald Savage.
Wartime Service
Frederick had worked at Kent's brushes for 16 years and his work was considered vital to the war effort and Kent's had government contracts to supply products to the services. As he was also married with a child, he was not called up but decided to enlist voluntarily in Hertford on 3 April 1918. After training he was sent to the front on 7 August 1918 and and served with the 7th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment).
He died on 25 September 1918 in the South African General Hospital at Abbeville, from wounds received in action whilst fighting near Ronssoy, south of Cambrai and is buried at Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £3 9s. She also received a pension of £1 6s 5d a week from 31.3.19,
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.hemelheroes.com, hemelatwar.org., dacorumheritage.org.uk.
