Topic: AIF - 5B - ICC
ICC, AIF
Imperial Camel Corps
John William Jones
John William Jones
Address: Pakia Station, Balranald
Commemoration details: Jerusalem Memorial, Palestine
Conflict: 1914-1918
Embarkation Age: 24
Embarkation details: Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on 10 May 1915
Embarkation Rank: Driver
Embarkation Roll number: 23/41/1
Embarkation Unit name: 24th Battalion, Transport Section
Enlistment date: 22 March 1915
Fate: Killed in Action 6 August 1916
Marital status: Single
Next of kin: Mother, Mrs Ellen Jones, Swan Hill PO, Swan Hill, Victoria
Occupation: Labourer
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial: 10
Place of death or wounding: Magebra, Sinai Peninsular, Egypt.
Rank at death: Lance Corporal [L Cpl]
Regimental number: 32
Unit from Nominal Roll: Imperial Camel Corps
War Grave Register notes: 32 Lance Corporal John William JONES, Imperial Camel Corps, 6th August 1916. Age 24. Son of Helena Hartwell (formerly Jones), of Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia, and the late John E. Jones. Native of Mystic Park, Victoria.
Lest We Forget
Sources Used:
National Archives Service File.
Embarkation Roll, AWM8, Class 10, Light Horse.
Nominal Roll, AWM133, Nominal Roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-1918 War.
Roll of Honour, AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army.
CWGC files, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Debt of Honour Register.
Collected Records of Steve Becker.
Additional Reading:
Imperial Camel Corps, Roll of Honour
Battle of Romani, Sinai, August 4 to 5, 1916
Bir el Abd, Sinai, 9 August 1916
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1919
Citation: ICC, AIF, Roll of Honour, John William Jones
