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Liet. Alfred Roy Jones 2/7th R.War.Reg.

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Hi,I have a pair of medals and plaque to Lieut.Alfred Roy Jones KIA during the great German offensive March 1918.I`ve been searching for his service papers on Ancestry.com without any luck. i thought officers records were kept separate and weren`t victim to the blitz which destroyed so many records.Am i mistaken?Could they have been destroyed,or have Ancestry.com no access to officer records.Any advice would be welcome - Kevin.:(
 
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Name:Alfred Roy Jones
Regiment or Corps:1st/7 Royal Warwickshire Regiment Regimental number:266588
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Lappylugs, I have a relative who was an officer and I went to Kew to find his records. I had no idea where to look and found nothing on their computer. I was discussing the fact I couldn't find anything with my friend when the gentleman on the next computer said "this is your lucky day". He was a proffesional researcher, he said officers are on paper. He looked it up for me and gave me the number to ask for in Archives. When the package arrived on the desk it was wrapped in muslin and tied with a tape. I opend it and there were papers and letters which hadn't seen the light of day for I don't know how many years. I sat at the desk and read letters from the millitary informing his parents he had been lost in action, then another saying he had been killed. The letter that made me cry was the very polite reply from my gt uncle accepting his 22 year old son who was a Cambridge graduate had been killed in action. The family still have the books he won as prizes at university. The computer is a great tool for searching family history, but there is nothing like going out and finding this information in its original form. Good luck with your search!
 
:)Thanks a million Mrs T i`m useless with these websites - i typed his name in for his MIC and got nothing!I`ll try and dig a little deeper.Wendy i`ve been to the PRO twice and must admit i found it very deflating as i hardly got a result for 20 or so soldiers!As you say it must be very sad to see original documents and letters relating to a young soldier who would never see home again.I have a group to a young officer who after being wounded was taken POW and died shortly after.The letters and documents would make a grown man cry(it did).I believe all those soldiers regardless of the uniform they wore were somsbody`s husband,sweetheart or son.What a terrible waste of life for nothing.- Kevin.Many thanks again.
 
Hi Alan, i`ve also checked SDGW and find it strange that he isn`t included.Appartently he was buried but the grave was lost during later battles!-Kevin.
 
From the Officers Died Great War section of the Soldiers Died Great War cd:

Name: Alfred Roy Jones
Regiment, Corps etc: Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Battalion etc: Battalion Not Shown
Rank: 2/LT
Died Date: 23/03/18
Died How: Killed in action
Notes: (ATT 2/7 BN)

Doug
 
Death Certificate details from the overseas deaths index (though they rarely contain a lot of information given the circumstances of the death):

Jones Alfred R, T.2 Lt, R.War.R., 1918, Volume 0.10 Page 294.

Doug
 
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