Stoker 1st Class K/13545 William JONES
H.M.S. "Indefatigable", Royal Navy
Killed in Action, The Battle of Jutland, Wednesday 31st May 1916, Age 23
Home address:
278 Uxbridge Street, Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire
Born:
1893, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Parents:
Harriet Jones and Frank Jones
278 Uxbridge Street, Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Farm Labourer
Enlisted:
-
Remembered:
Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon, UK, panel 16.
Link to Hyde:
Not Known
A Message of Remembrance, written for Werneth Low Cenotaph Unveiling, 25th June 1921:
In remembrance of Willie Jones, stoker HMS Indefatigable, Jutland Battle, 1916,
from Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw and family,
Wood End Villa, Hyde.
from Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw and family,
Wood End Villa, Hyde.
Only 3 of HMS Indefaigable‘s crew of 1,019 survived when the battlecruiser sank following shelling by the German battlecruiser Von der Tann in the early stages of the Battle of Jutland.