Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

29/04/1916

Date of Discharge

12/08/1919

Place of Enlistment

Goulburn NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Canberra ACT

Address (at enlistment)

Long Swamp, Boro NSW (previously Weetangera and Ginninderra ACT)

School(s) Attended

Weetangerra (Weetangera) School, Mulligans Flat School (Gungahlin)

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

Frederick Jones (father), Boro NSW

Service Number

1439

Final Rank

Lance Corporal

Final Unit

34 Battalion AIF

Weetangera Honor Roll, St. John's Schoolhouse Museum, Reid

Horace Jones was born near Duntroon in 1894. His father was employed by Everard Crace of 'Gungahleen' and the family lived at Weetangera, where Jones attended school, and at Mulligans Flat until 1914 when they moved to the Tarago district. He enlisted on 8 June 1916 and served in France with the 33rd Battalion from 19 April 1917 and then with the 34th Battalion from June 1917 onwards at Messines and Passchendaele. He was erroneously reported as missing in October 1917, during the Battle of Passchendaele and for six months his family received conflicting reports on his fate, but he returned to Australia in July 1919 before being discharged the following month. Jones lived in Canberra after the war working as a cleaner and living at Reid. He died on 5 March 1973 and is buried in Woden Cemetery.

Description - height 5 feet 9 inches, weight 160 pounds, chest 34-36½ inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, fair hair, Church of England, scar across left eyebrow.

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