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281st (1/2nd London) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery    281st (2nd London) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery served with 56th (London) Division during the Great War and saw action on the Western Front. 4th Aug 1914 Mobilisation 2nd of May 1916 Reliefs 6th of September 1916 Wood Cleared   7th of September 1916 Reliefs   25th of September 1916  Instructions for Tanks   26th of September 1916 Reliefs   23rd of November 1916 Division to Side Slip   28th of November 1916 German Party Dispersed   23rd of December 1916 Artillery Relief   17th Aug 1917 Reliefs 2nd of October 1918 Orders   4th Nov 1918 In Action 5th Nov 1918 In Action 6th Nov 1918 Attacks Made 7th Nov 1918 Bombardment 8th Nov 1918 Attack Made If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 281st (1/2nd London) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery? There are:5246 items tagged 281st (1/2nd London) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 281st (1/2nd London) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Jones John Robert. Bmdr. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 281st (1/2nd London) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? 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If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 262332 Bmdr. John Robert Jones 281st Brigade, A Battery Royal Field Artillery John Jones saw service throughout the War in 281 Brigade, 56th (London) Division until the 1st Battle of Arras in 1918 when his gun was hit on 28th March. He spent 2 days on the battlefield and it seems he was found on 30th March and attended 54th General Hospital at Aubengue Hospital for shell shock and then returned to England for convalescence and then posted to the 5th Reserve Brigade. The story handed down was that his artillery gun was hit and he was the only one to have survived, he then carried the attached photo of his gun crew in his breast pocket for the rest of the war. However I can find no record of 5 or 6 same day casualties from A battery around that time, but I have reason to believe A battery was posted alongside 109 battery and CWGC records show a group of fatalities from 109 battery on that day. Is it possible that as the Bombardier he was more mobile and close to 109 battery? Or, could he have been transferred to 109 battery at short notice (there are no military records of an official transfer that I can find). The attached photo is believed to have been taken just before Cambrai in Nov 1917, and I am 99% sure this is his A battery gun crew. If anybody should recognise any of these men as having survived the war, then it would add weight to my theory regarding 109 battery. John Robert Jones had 5 children after the war, including my mother, and one of whom was part of the British 1948 Olympic team. Sadly, he had a troubled life after the war, never recovered from his injuries, and died in 1936. John Robert Jones was my grandfather. 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