Ernest Jones was born in 1883 in Beverley. He was the second son of Sam and Mary Jane Jones, of 43 Keldgate, Beverley
He enlisted in Hull with the Yorkshire and Lancashire regiment and was part f the Machine gun Corps.
Ernest Jones was killed on 26 March 1918 during the first battles of Arras 1918. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Arras Memorial to the Missing. Killed in Action: 26th March 1918, aged 34.
Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France (Bay 10); Beverley Minster 1914-1918 memorial, Machine Gun Corps section. Beverley Memorial, Hengate, Beverley Keldgate Roll of Honour
Photograph of Ernest Jones of the Machine Gun Company of the 3 rd Bn. York & Lancashire Regiment (BG, Saturday 20th May 1916).
Pte. Ernest Jones was wounded on the 30 th October 1917 when a shell burst and “made a bit of a mess of my face”. )BG, Photograph, Saturday 10 th November 1917).
“Official information was received Sunday last from the Machine Gun Corps, Record Office, London, by Mr & Mrs S. Jones of 43 Keldgate, Beverley, that their second son, Pte. Ernest Jones, Machine Gin Corps, was killed in action between March 21 st and 26th. Pte. Jones who was 34 years of age and single, had about two and a half years of service to his credit, nearly two years of which were spent overseas. On October 30 th 1917, he was wounded in the face. As a boy on leaving school he went to work at Cussons Tannery, Beverley, and on arriving at his manhood, he entered the employ of the North Eastern Railway Company, at Hull as a joiner’s help, which position he occupied until joining up. He has two other brothers on active service.” (BG, Saturday 20 th April1918).
