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Sam Jones was the eldest of three brothers who fought in the conflict. His younger brother Pte Ernest Jones died on 26 Mar 1918, the youngest brother Pte Frank Jones survived. All three are listed on the Keldgate Memorial plaque.
Samuel was the son of Sam and Mary Jane Jones of 43 Keldgate, Beverley, he was born in Bevelery in 1877 and attended Minster Infants and Minster Boys Schools.
Sam had been a regular soldier before the war but the 1911 census shows him living at home and earning his living as a labourer. At the outbreak of war he re-en-listed at Driffield into the Royal Regiment of Artillery, regimental number 33997. He saw immediate action on the retreat from Mons and was wounded at the Battle of Marne in the same year. The Beverley Guardian on 26 Oct 1918 reported that he was in hospital in Salonika suffering from shell shock and fever. Sam survived the war and was awarded the Victory Medal and British War Medal. He married Rose Salmon in Hull in 1913 and they subsequently had three children. Sam died aged 67 in Mar 1945.
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