David Jones – South Wales Borderers, 10th (Service) Battalion (1st Gwent)

Second Lieutenant David Jones – South Wales Borderers, 10^th (Service) Battalion (1^st Gwent)

Personal Life

David Jones

David Jones, born in 1886, was the husband of Annie Jones, of 55 St. Helen’s Road, Swansea.

Military Service

During the First World War, David served as a Second Lieutenant with the South Wales Borderers, 10^th (Service) Battalion (1^st Gwent).

On 8^th October 1918, the battalion was engaged in the final phase of the Hundred Days Offensive, as British forces pressed eastwards across northern France following the breaking of the Hindenburg Line. Fighting in the Gouy and Aisne sector remained fierce despite the German retreat. The battalion was involved in advancing across exposed ground, clearing fortified farms and trench systems, and overcoming determined machine-gun and artillery resistance from German rearguard units.

Officers were required to lead assaults and organise consolidation of captured positions under fire, making them especially vulnerable during these operations.

Death and Burial

It was during this advance on 8^th October 1918 that David was killed in action. He is buried at Guizancourt Farm Cemetery, Gouy, Aisne, France, one of the cemeteries associated with the final Allied advance in the closing weeks of the war