Monday 2 August 2010

29674 Pte Oscar E Jones, 8th Bn, LNL Regt

29674 Private Oscar Edwin Jones of the 8th Battalion, Loyla North Lancashire Regiment, was killed in action on the 2nd August 1917. He had formerly served with the Manchester Regiment (number 13811) and was born and lived in West Didsbury, Lancashire. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC, WO 363)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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