Photograph of Pte John Price Jones, Montgomeryshire Yeamanry
| Title |
Photograph of Pte John Price Jones, Montgomeryshire Yeamanry
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| Subject |
Jones, John Price
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| Notes |
A scan of a photo of Pte John Price Jones (Mrs Jones' Dad), on horse. Jones had been a farmer at Diarth Farm, Llanyre, Llandrindod Wells
Jones enlisted to join the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, Private 2526. He was billeted at No 1 Llynddu Terrace, Welshpool, and was married from there on 15 July 1915 to Emily Howells of Tybrith Farm, Cloddia. "He fought on the trenches on the Somme from which he contracted Trench Feet Fever and had to be treated in hospital for it for some months before returning to the front. He was also in the battle of Ypres, a battle also fought in appalling conditions where the water level was just under the crust of the earth, so everywhere became a sea of mud from tanks, war machinery and horses churning it up. Mustard Gas was a weapon used by the Germans in this battle as well, and caused much distress to the forces fighting there and Pte J.P. Jones was one that got caught in one of those blasts and was hospitalised at Richmond in London for 6 weeks recuperation before returning to the front again." Part of collection that includes a photo of young men posing on the steps at Llandrindod Wells railway station after volunteering to join the army (1914). |
| Item date |
1914
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| Creation place |
Unknown
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| Content | |
| Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
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| Filename |
GWA_3306_JonesPhotograph.jpg
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| Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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| Digital repository | |
| Contributor name |
Alun Edwards (Powys Archives submissions day)
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| Contributed on the behalf of |
Mrs M J Jones
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Collection
Citation
“Photograph of Pte John Price Jones, Montgomeryshire Yeamanry,” The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 30, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/4761.
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