Dedicated to the memory of all the men and women of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, who died during the two World Wars.

CAPT H. M. JONES
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Harry Martin Jones
Born: abt 1889 [1901 census] Q4 1889 Bridgnorth RD Harry Martin Jones [GRO] Baptised [no place], Shropshire, 10 Nov 1889, parents John & Eliza.
Married: Edith Gray Q1 1915 AstonRD[included Small Heath] [GRO]
Died: Q4 1918 Wokingham RD Harry M Jones age 29. [GRO]
[1901] 25 North Gate, Bridgnorth: 	John Jones, Head, m, 37, House Painter, Atcham.
					Eliza Jones, wife, m, 34, Confectioner & Baker, own a/c, Glazeley
					Harry M, son, 11, Bridgnorth.
					Winifred A, dau, 7, Bridgnorth.
					Dorothy E, 6, Bridgnorth.
[1911] 36 Villa Road, Handsworth, Birmingham: Boarding with George Clarke, Gunmaker, Foreman.
					Harry Martin Jones, 21, Single, Certificated Elementary School Teacher, City of Birmingham Ed Cte, Bridgnorth.
[1911] Parents still at 25 North Gate, two more children, Cyril Herbert, 6 and Walter Luther Bishop, 1. Both Bridgnorth.

No record in Teacher's Registration Council Registers 1914-1948 so may not have survived the war.

[Probate] JONES Harry Martin of 124 Kenelm-road Small Heath Birmingham
schoolmaster died 27 November 1918 at Pinewood Hospital
Wokingham Berkshire Probate Birmingham 30 December
to Edith Jones widow. Effects £507 0s. 3d.
[Pinewood Hospital - The London Open Air Sanatorium, Wokingham, was a TB hospital. Patients paid 3 guineas a week and typically stayed about 6 months. Patients with cover under 1911 National Insurance Act were covered. Taken over by Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1919.]

[Medal card]: Jones H M, R War R 8th, Hon. Capt. Application for badge 11/7/18. Address 124 Kenelm Road. Small Heath, Birmingham. [and] Pinewood Sanatorium, Wokingham Berks. Eligible. Badge no 382.988 15.7.18 [This is Silver War Badge. Badges Records on Ancestry say:
		Capt. Jones, H M., Royal Warwickshire Regt. 382,988 I V 511 Pinewood Sanatorium, Wokingham, Berks.

1/8th Battalion
August 1914 : in Aston Cross. Part of Warwickshire Brigade, South Midland Division.
Landed at Le Havre 22 March 1915.
13 May 1915 : became 143rd Brigade, 48th (South Midland) Division.
Moved to Italy with the Division in November 1917.
Moved to France 11 september 1918 and joined 75th Brigade, 25th Division.

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