Friday 9 January 2015

Monk Bretton Cemetery Rowland Jones 1895-1918

Rowland is remembered on his parents' gravestone
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Lives of the First World War

Photograph by Nigel Croft

Monumental Inscription by the Barnsley Family History Society


Grave Location and Inscription:
C088

SEMPER FIDELIS / In proud memory of / SAM JONES J. P. / one time Mayor of this Town / who died Sept 1st 1935, aged 66 years. / A good name endureth / but a good life endureth for ever. / Also ROWLAND JONES / killed in action 1918, / and JESSIE, who died in infancy. / Also ANNIE, beloved wife of the above / who died Nov. 15th 1942, aged 74 years. // 

He is also remembered on the Barnsley, St Mary's Church, Combined Memorial
 
He is buried in the Rocqueigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt in France and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.




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