22 September 2010

357061 2nd Lt Eric Jones, RE

357061 Second Lieutenant Eric Jones of the Royal Engineers, died on the 22nd September 1945. At the time of his death he was serving with Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners. He was 19 years old, the son of William Arthur and Lilian Jones of Mayfield, Staffordshire. He is buried in the Madras War Cemetery in India.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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