Category: Hants Border

Thomas Jones ca. 1914 Thomas Jones was born on the 16th of February, 1895 in Plumley, Cheshire, England1, a son of Samuel Jones and Elizabeth Kent. He had two brothers; George and Harold, and a sister Sarah Ellen (Nellie). Following their mother's death in 1899 the children were separated and in the 1911 Census of England2 Tom can be found living in the household of William and Mary Carter as a border, his occupation given as "farm worker (cow man)". Tom joined the "Cheshire Regiment" and saw action in the First World War beginning in February, 1915 as a machine gunner with the 14th Brigade, 5th Division. He fought in the second and third Battles of Ypres (Passchendaele), and the Battles of Arras and Vimy Ridge. Tom was hospitalized in England with a leg wound in September, 1917 after having fought on the front lines with little relief for two and a half years. Throughout that time he kept a diary that survives today....