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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 323

Three: Captain C. H. Jones, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was seriously wounded while serving in the 17th Battalion at Laventie in May 1916

1914-15 Star (Capt. C. H. Jones, R.W.F.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. H. Jones, R.W.F.), good very fine (3)

Charles Henry Jones was born in 1888 and, by profession, was a printer and publisher. He enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in September 1914, when he stated that he had previously served in the 1st Volunteer Battalion for three years.

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant at the end of the same year, he was posted to the 17th Battalion and arrived in France in December 1915.

He subsequently sustained multiple wounds from an enemy rifle grenade in the trenches at Laventie on 16 May 1916, being hit in the left eye, both arms and both legs: such was the extent of his wounds that his resultant disabilities were assessed at 80% at a Medical Board held at Wrexham in October 1919.

Jones did not claim his campaign medals until 1938, when he was living in Wrexham; sold with copied research.



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