Family :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

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

Palestine is a generic term to cover actions in the region now consisting of Sinai, Israel, Jordan, Syria and Aden and involved operations against the Turks. Once the security of the Suez Canal was assured in 1915 the focus shifted to the area now within the post 1967 borders of Israel. In 1917 there were three battles at Gaza, which enabled the capture of Jerusalem in December. In 1918 the campaign continued north into the Jordan Valley then towards Damascus. The Armistice with Turkey was signed on the 31st October 1918.

Detail :

His commission was reported in the Western Mail on the 12th March 1915: "7th (Merioneth and Montgomery) Battalion Royal Welsh Fusliers - Private Titho Glynne Jones, from the 9th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) to be second-lieutenant; dated March 12."

Brecon Remembers Lieutenant Titho Glynne Jones Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 1st/7th (Merioneth and Montgomery) Battalion Killed in action on April 20th, 1917, aged 30 Remembered with Honour at the Gaza War Cemetery, Palestine Titho was born in Soham, Cambridgeshire in March 1887, and was baptised there a month later. He was the eldest son of Edmund Osborne Jones and his wife Ada, nee Howells. His father Edmund was a Church of England clergyman. In 1889 the family moved to Brecon when his father gained a teaching position at Christ College and in the early part of 1891 they were living at 5, Alexandra Road, Brecon and Titho now had a younger brother, Edmund. Later that year Titho's father was given a post at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire and the family moved to the vicarage there. Titho returned to Christ College as a pupil in 1897. He was successful academically and also played for the college’s first team at rugby. He was also a keen footballer and played for Brecon. He left the college in 1905 having passed all his higher certificates. Titho then became an articled clerk, to Mr. W. P. Jones, solicitor of Aberystwyth in 1906, passing his final law examination in 1910. 260 In 1911 Titho is living at home in Llanidloes’ vicarage with his parents and whilst younger brother Edmund is now in Oswestry Grammar School, two more siblings have arrived. Enid Adelaide, born about 1892 and Russell Hafrenydd born about 1895. Titho later emigrated to Canada and set up business in British Columbia. He returned to Britain in June 1914 arriving in Liverpool, aboard the Lusitania. When war broke out, Titho enlisted in the London Regiment, in the 1/9th Queen Victoria Rifles and served in the ranks in France from November 1914 to March 1915 and would have been involved in most of the major actions of this time. He was later given a commission in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and within the 1/7th Battalion fought with the 53rd (Welsh) Division in the Palestine Campaign and fell in the second battle of Gaza. Titho's youngest brother Russell died in the Gallipoli fighting


Mentioned by the Badsey Society.

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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