243094 L/Cpl. Herbert Stanley Joseph Jones British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment from:99 Shepperton Rd, Islington, London (d.19th Nov 1917) My Gt Gt Uncle Herbert Jones enlisted in the British Army at the Guildhall in the City of London in 1915. He was originally placed in the 2/8th Essex Regiment, before being sent to France mid-1916 and later drafted into the 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment in preparation for the Somme offensive. It was sometime during 1916 that he was made Lance Corporal after taking part in such battles as Albert, Bazentin, Pozieres and Flers-Courcelette. After fighting at Lens in 1917, the Regiment fought in the latter stages of the battle of Passchendaele, and it was at Irish Farm on 19th of November that a German shell exploded killing two men outright, and wounded several others, one being Herbert. The wounded were sent to the casualty clearing station behind the line at Mendinghem, where Herbert later died of his wounds. He is buried in the Mendinghem Cemetery.
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