Private Alexander Jones

Army Number : 21832

Battalion : 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Firvale, Yorkshire. Son of Richard and Ann Jones of Firvale Street, Harthill, Yorkshire. He was a coal miner at Shirebrook Colliery, Derbyshire, prior to enlisting at Shirebrook. He went to France on 28th August 1915 (according to medal index card) with an unknown Battalion/Regiment (9th Battalion were in Gallipoli at the time) and was later transferred to the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was killed in action, 26th September 1916, in the attack near Ovillers, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried : Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt, France. Plot 7. Row L. Grave 4.

Private Alexander Jones is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Harthill War Memorial, Harthill, Yorkshire.
All Hallows Church War Memorial, Harthill, Yorkshire.

His brother Lance Corporal Richard Jones, 9th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, also fell in the Great War.