4/1284 - Corporal

Thomas Richard

JONES

Main Body - Section No.1

Timeline


1915

1915

21 September

Enlistment

Auckland Military District

1915

11 October

Initial training

Avondale, Auckland

1915

27 November

Promoted Sergeant

1915

18 December

Transfer to England

S.S. Ruapehu

1916

1916

3 February

Marched in to the Company Training Camp, Falmouth

1916

9 March

Embarked for France

1916

16 March

From the Front

The Company joined the underground warfare in the North of France

Chantecler, Sector of Arras

1916

14 November

Wounded in action

Died of wounds

106th Field Ambulance, Agnez-lès-Duisans

Resting place

Habarcq Communal Cemetery Extension, France

Grave reference

VIII B 6

Decoration

British War Medal
British War Medal

Victory Medal
Victory Medal

Sources and bibliography

  • Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau: Thomas Richard JONES.
  • Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Wellington, Government Printer, 1916, p. 2.

Photography

  • Auckland Weekly News, 25 January 1917.

How to cite this page

Anthony BYLEDBAL, “Thomas Richard JONES (4/1284)”, New Zealand Tunnellers, 2024 (2009). Accessed: 23 December 2024. URL: https://www.nztunnellers.com/roll/details.php?id=432