Charles Jones

1894-1940

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.2

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1357

About

Born in New Zealand

10 December 1894
Parent

Mother

Jones
Live

Hometown

Waihi
Work

Occupation

Miner & Tool Sharpener

Employer

Waihi Gold Mining Company
Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

  • Territorial Force

    New Zealand

  • World War I (1914-1918)

    New Zealand Tunnellers

    British War Medal ribbon

    British War Medal

    Victory Medal ribbon

    Victory Medal

    Death

    Died at the age of 45

    5 January 1940

    Sources

    Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

    New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5541 71/0061549, Military Personnel File.

    Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 3.

    How to cite this page

    Anthony Byledbal, “Charles Jones (1894-1940)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/423