JONES, Charles Ernest
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Rank:
Trooper
Unit / Base:
11 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Armoured Corps/Staffordshire Yeomanry
Service:
Army
Number:
554075
Died :
Tuesday, June 3, 1941
Died on war service
Age:
21
Cemetery/Memorial:
Trooper Charles Ernest Jones died in the Middle East as a result of an accident.
Son of Charles Henry and Annie Jones, of Wolverhampton.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/25.
Notes
The date of his death was 5 days before Operation Exporter, the raid at Litani River, and coincides with the date of mobilisation for the raid.
"On the night of the 3rd June, the 11th Commando received a rush order to embark from Famagusta and after midnight the destroyers Hotspur and Ilex arrived to take them to Port Said. Colonel Pedder went to Jerusalem to receive orders while the Commando transferred to Glengyle." Source: Ian McHarg's book about Litani River.
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