Thanks to Gary Mitchell for permission to share his Facebook post here on our blog.
___________________________________________________________________________28th December 2021
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery, have I been forgotten?
66 years ago today, on the 28th December 1955, Private Pearce (Pierce) Jones, 46th Battalion (Reg No-2925), miner from Railway Street, Dudley, New South Wales and 98 Dawson Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W., father of five (Edith, Gwen, Amelia, Esme & Pierce), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 71. ANGLICAN 3-181. 22.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 17th June 1884 to Nathaniel and Elizabeth Jones; husband of Hannah Jones nee Jones (married 1905, Wickham, N.S.W., died 1958, sleeping here) of Thomas Street, Dudley, N.S.W., Pearce enlisted September 1916 at Rutherford, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123510069 - farewell from the School of Arts Hall, Dudley.
Admitted to hospital 2.3.1917 (not stated), 13.5.1917 (tuberculous cystitis), 14.10.1917 (trench fever), 12.5.1918 (myalgia), 14.6.1918 (pyrexia).
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138149285 - reported in hospital.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137499417 - reported wounded.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137487245 - reported removed from seriously ill list.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138149285 - reported suffering from trench fever.
Wounded in action - 18.9.1918 (GSW leg, right calf, severe, dangerously ill).
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137495908 - Pearce reported in hospital with GSW.
Pearce returned home May 1919, being discharged on the 8th November 1919.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139647698 - report that Pearce is returning home.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139441644 - public welcome home for Pearce.
Mr. Jones’s name has been inscribed on the Dudley Soldiers' Memorial (photos, unveiled on the 25th April 1922, 74 names inscribed, 16 Fallen - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140993498), Dudley Public School Roll of Honor and the Wickham Superior Public School Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at the gravesite in remembrance of Pearce’s service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Younger brother David (35th Battalion, Reg No-469, born 1889, died 1955, Newcastle, N.S.W.) also served 1st A.I.F.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138739007 - brother David reported wounded 2nd occasion.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138152945 - reported that David is returning home.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138154994 - David is welcomed home.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138156656 - welcome home David.
Older brother William (57th Battalion, Reg No-2185, born 1880, died 1940, Belmont, N.S.W. - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article167468950, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139367582) also served 1st A.I.F.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140976714 - report that brother William is returning home.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140975227 - welcome home William.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140979898 - public welcome home for William.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
