In memory of Herbert Jones
Herbert Jones, known as Bert, was born in Penybryn, Llanfyllin, in 1888 to Richard and Sarah Jones, writes Pauline Page-Jones. Richard was a butcher and died in 1910, aged 62.
In 1911 Bert was working in Manchester as an assistant butcher and lodging with his aunt, Margaret Jane Hartley. He married Emma Rivers in Uckfield, Sussex, in 1916. The couple set up a home in Crowborough, Sussex.
Bert enlisted as a Private in the army, joining the Manchester Regiment. In late summer 1918 he took part in the allied forces’ advance through the area between the Somme and Loos. He was killed in action on 27 September. He was 31 years old.
He is one of more than 9,000 men listed on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, near Arras, who died in the advance but have no known grave. However, an inscription on the family’s gravestone in Llanfyllin Cemetery says that he was buried in Trescourt Cemetery, France. It’s possible that his family was informed initially that Bert was buried at a small place called Trescourt, but the Commonwealth War Graves Commission was unable to locate his body for exhumation after the war.
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