Pte 58682 Harry Jones

• Age: 40
• From: Manchester
• Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 17th Btn
• K.I.A Wednesday 8th May 1918
• Commemorated at: Tyne Cot Memorial
  Panel Ref: Panel 31-34

Harry Jones was born in 1877 in Manchester and was baptised 27th September 1878 at St Silas Church, Ardwick, Lancashire. He was the son of Henry Jones and his wife Dinah (nee Holt). His parents married on 14th November 1874 when Henry Jones was 19 and Dinah Holt was 27 and a widow. (nee Bickerstaff b. 1846).

The 1881 Census shows the family living at 42 Herbert Street, Ardwick.

The father Henry aged 27 is employed as a back tenter for paper printing machines, his wife Dinah 34. They have six children, Jane 5, and step-siblings(Holt) Elizabeth 17 silk embroiderer, John 15 carters assistant, James 13 a lath layer, and William 11 scholar and Harry is aged 4 (everybody born Manchester).

The 1891 Census shows the family are living at 42 Markham Street, Ardwick.

The father Henry is aged 37, assistant ?sher , wife Dinah is aged 44 and has no occupation listed. They have four children living at the address at the taking of the Census,  Jane 15 corset maker, Harry aged 14 is a plater at a print works, Alfred H. aged 9 and a scholar b.Ardwick, and step-brother John Holt 25 a warehouseman.

The 1901 Census shows the family living at 116, Devon Street, South Manchester, Chorlton. His father Henry is aged 50, born in Manchester in 1851, occupation railway goods porter whilst his mother Dinah is aged 53, born 1848 in Manchester. They have a stepson John Holt aged 35, born 1866 a railway goods porter born in Manchester, Harry aged 24, born 1877 is an asphalter and Alfred aged 19, born 1882 is an apprentice letterpress printer. 

His mother died in the last quarter of 1906.

On the 1911 census, Harry is aged 34, an ashphalter, living with his widowed father at 71 Croston St, Beswick, Manchester

He enlisted in Manchester and was serving with the 17^th Battalion, The King’s Liverpool Regiment as Private No 58682 when he was killed in action on the 08th May 1918 aged 40. N.B. SDGW lists Harry's death as 05th August 1918.

He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.

Those United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after August 16th 1917 are named on the Tyne Cot Memorial, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war.

The Tyne Cot Memorial now bears the names of almost 35,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by Joseph Armitage and F.V. Blundstone, was unveiled by Sir Gilbert Dyett on 20 June 1927.

The memorial forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which was established around a captured German blockhouse or pill-box used as an advanced dressing station.

Soldiers Effects and Pension to father Henry

His father died in January 1924

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