Sorting the John Joneses

Five men named John (or Jack) Jones have been identified as being amongst the war-dead of Llandudno. Only three are listed on each of the main references (the Roll of Honour, the War Memorial, and the marble tablets in Holy Trinity Church). Only the Roll of Honour gives rank and unit and because the lists are almost identical, then it is taken that the same men are listed in the three memorials. The table below assigns the closest of the identified five men to the names on the memorials and adds details of the two who have no local memorial.

Name on Roll of Honour (1921) Name on War Memorial (1922) and in Memorial Chapel (1924) Identified as
Jack Jones, Dvr, RGA John Jones 310095, Driver John Jones, RGA (TF), dd 3 December 1918
Son of John and Jane Jones, of Tan-Y-Coed, Nant-Y-Gamer Rd., Llandudno. (CWGC)
Jack Jones, Pte, RWF Jack Jones 20032, Private Jack Jones 14th RWF,  dd 25 October 1918
Son of Thomas and Katherine Jones, of 3, Kings Rd., West Shore, Llandudno, Carnarvonshire. Native of Llandudno. (CWGC)
John Jones, 3 Kings Road, PTE R.W.F. 25/10/1918 (Tabernacl)
John Davies Jones, Cpl, RWF John D Jones 15538, Lance Corporal John Davies Jones, 1st RWF, dd 30 September 1917
Son of William Jones, of Elvira, Pleasant St., Llandudno. (CWGC)
Unnamed on memorials Able Seaman John Jones, Merchantile Marine, dd 27 June 1918
Son of the late Owen and Jane Jones (Nee Hughes). Born At Llandudno. (CWGC)
T/356034, Driver John William Jones, Royal Army Service Corps, dd 31 January 1920
Husband of Mary Jones, of 4, King’s Rd., West Shore, Llandudno. (CWGC)

Leave a Reply

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>