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Ivor Jones
18835, Private, 16th Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died of wounds, 15 July 1916, aged 22
Buried at St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France
CWGC registered (Husband of A H Jones, of “Rock View,” Victoria Avenue, Llandudno)
ALL YE THAT LABOUR COME TO ME AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST
Ivor Jones was born in 1894 at Pontllanfraith, Monmouthshire. He was the son of Joseph Jones and Sarah Maria Jones (née Lewis). The Census of Wales for 1901 recorded the family living at 15 Mount Street, Tredegar. Joseph Jones was a colliery ostler (below ground). Ivor (3) had an elder brother Albert (6). In 1911, the family was living at Cwmbrynan Farm, Pontllanfraith – Joseph Jones was described as a farmer and Ivor as at boarding school.
Ivor Jones was recruited into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Newport. He joined the 16th (Service) Battalion at Llandudno in December 1914 with a service number of 18835. The Battalion had formed at Llandudno the previous month and it moved down to Winchester in August 1915 to continue its training with the 38th (Welsh) Brigade.
On 3 November 1915, Ivor Jones married Ann Harrison Williams (b 1893) at Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno. Ivor gave his address as Winnal Down Camp, Winchester.
Ivor Jones disembarked with his Battalion in France in December 1915. He was wounded in action on the attack at Mametz Wood, part of the Battle of the Somme, on 10 July 1916 when the 38th (Welsh) Brigade received a severe mauling. He was admitted to 34 Casualty Clearing Station with a compound fracture of the left knee and haematoma. He was evacuated two days later by 9 Ambulance Train to a hospital at Rouen, over 100 miles away but succumbed to his wounds on 15 July aged 22. He is buried at St. Sever Cemetery. Sadly, Ivor Jones was never to see his daughter Elizabeth.
Ann Jones never remarried and in 1939 was living with her widowed mother and brother in Craig-y-Don. She died in 1981.
- Llandudno Roll of Honour
- Llandudno War Memorial
- Memorial Chapel, Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno
- Llanrhos War Memorial, All Saints’ Church, Deganwy
- Pontllanfraith War Memorial
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