JONES, Harold
| Service Number: | 14 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 14, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry | |
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| 1 Mar 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 14, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 463 notes 3rd QMI embarked 1 Mar 1900 aboard Duke of Portland arriving Cape Town 2 Apr 1900. | |
| 21 Jun 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lance Corporal, 14, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 465 notes 3rd QMI embarked 9 May 1901 at Cape Town returning to Australia aboard Morayshire arriving Sydney 7 Jun 1901 (rail to Brisbane), disbanded 21 Jun 1901. |
Harold Jones
Harold Jones, single, c/ W. H. Jones, Marine Department (p408, "The Queenslander" 3 March 1900).
Mr W. H. (Walter Harry) Jones, of the Queensland Government Marine Department, was born in Lancashire in about 1859, and settled in Brisbane, by 1883. His brother Harold Jones, born about 1865 (also in Lancashire), at some point emigrated to Australia and at the time of enlistment for the Anglo-Boer War, nominated his address as care of his brother Walter H. Jones.
Both were the sons of Uriah Halsall Jones and Mary Ann (nee Palmer), of Lancashire - the family were living at Everton, Lancashire in the 1871 UK Census.
Harold Jones died in Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales in 1922 (NSW BDM: 5336/1922 JONES HAROLD URENTA H MARY A REDFERN)
Submitted 2 May 2016 by Timna Green
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