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Desborough Soldiers

Jones, Thomas Herbert
1889 -

Enlistment

  • Enlisted:
  • at Kettering on 18 Jan 1916. Aged 26y 6m
  • Description:
  • height 5ft 2in; weight 112lbs; chest 30in; religion Church of England.
  • Occupation:
  • Shoe Hand
  • Address:
  • 19 Nicholls St, Desborough
  • Next of kin:
  • (father) Thomas Austin Jones, 19 Nicholls St, Desborough

Service history

16 Nov 1916Appointed to 3rd Battn Northamptonshire Regiment (30900)
01 Feb 1917Embarked Folkestone to Boulogne
19 Feb 1917Transferred to 2nd Battn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (40741)
26 Feb 1917Joined Battalion. Field
04 Jul 1917Joined Base Depot Havre
13 Jul 1917Attached 61st Sanitary Section
21 Jul 1917Rejoined Battalion. Field
23 Jul 1917Shrapnel Wound Rt Thigh
01 Aug 1917To England per HS St Daria
28 Dec 1917Discharged from hospital (149 days)
29 Dec 1917C Co. Granted furlough until 7 Jan 1918
12 Feb 1918Transferred to Royal Army Medical Corps (136735)
22 Feb 1919Demobbed.

British War Medal


 

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