Family :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

France & Flanders covers all the dates and corresponding locations which are outside the official battle nomenclature dates on the Western Front. Therefore the actions in which these men died could be considered 'normal' trench duty - the daily attrition losses which were an everyday fact of duty on the Western Front.

Detail :

JONES, Kingsmill William, Captain, RAMC- 1/East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) Captain Kingsmill William Jones, D.S.O., R.A.M.C.(T.F.), was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, wlhere he gained a scholarship in 1897, and graduated B.A. in 1898, M.B.,B.Ch., and B.A.O. in 1901, and M.A., M.D., and D.P.H. in 1903. After filling the posts of resident medical officer at Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin, and of house-surgeon of the Swansea General and Eye Hospital, he went into practice at Ardwick, Manchester, and in 1913 was elected member of Manchester City Council for Ardwick Ward. He took a commission as lieutenant in the 3rd East Lancashire Field Ambulance on February 11th, 1912, and went to France in September, 1914, with the 16th Special Reserve Field Ambulance. He was wounded at Hooge in August, 1915, when he received the D.S.O., was again wounded in September, 1916, and later was severely gassed. His DSO Citation read: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Hooge. During the entire night of 9 - 10 Aug 1915, and the whole of the following day and night, he was attending to and evacuating wounded from the front trenches, time after time exposing himself to shell and rifle fire. He was twice slightly wounded, but stuck to his work with unflagging energy. It was entirely owing to Capt Jones that the crator was successfully evacuated of wounded. The 16th Brigade was, with the 18th Brigade, involved in an early morning assault on the German positions around the Hooge Crater on the Menin Road to the east of Ypres. Following a short sharp bombardment 16th Brigade moved out into No Mans Land and crept behind the covering artillery fire towards the German trenches that were between 75 and 500 yards away. As the artillery barrage lifted the assault went in and the two brigades converged on the Hooge Crater where there was a melee of hand to hand fighting and recovered 700 yards of trench that had previously beeen lost to the Germans. The position was consolidated and German counter attacks repulsed. Over 130 prisoners were taken and the Official History noted that large numbers of German dead were found; over 300 near the stables and 200 near the crater. The visitor to Hooge Crater, which is in the grounds of the Kastelhof Hotel, can access the crater and gain an excellent impression of the area of this assault. The main hotel now occupies the area where the stables were located. If you go across the Menin Road to the Hooge Crater Cemetery and look to the West you can see the ground over which the 16th Brigade advanced. Kingsmill JONES was the Senior Warden in his lodge. Sources: British Medical Journal 17/8/1918 The Distinguished Service Order 1886-1923 - Hayward Official History Military Operations France and Belgium 1915 Vol II.

Masonic :

Senior Warden

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley