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Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (14120...
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Tudor Lawrence Jones was born on 12 May 1878, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Jones, of Cefn-Coed, Breconshire, and was educated at Malvern College and Clare College, Cambridge. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, South Wales Borderers in 1898, and, following the outbreak of the Boer War, attested for the Imperial Yeomanry in London on 26 January 1900. He served with the 47th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Company, 13th Battalion in South Africa from 1 March to 23 October 1900, and was captured and taken Prisoner of War (along with the entirety of the 47th Company) by de Wet at Lindley on 31 May 1900. Released, he was discharged at his own request on 23 October 1900, after 257 days’ service. He died on 27 January 1904.
Sold with copied service papers, medal roll extract, and other research.
Sold also with various letters, newspaper cuttings, and other ephemera relating to Trooper L. Brooke, 47th Company, Imperial Yeomanry, who served in the same company as Tudor Lawrence Jones. Lionel Brooke, the son of Sir Richard Brooke, Bt., had emigrated to Canada aged 23 in 1882, and arriver at Pincher Creek, Alberta, ‘with his butler, and wearing a monocle’. Returning to the United Kingdom in 1900, he attested for the Imperial Yeomanry and served with the 47th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Company, 13th Battalion in South Africa; he was also captured and taken Prisoner of War at Lindley on 31 May 1900, and the letters and other ephemera give details of the action at Lindley. Sold also with a copy of the book ‘The Great Karoo’, by Fred Stenson, in which Brooke is mentioned on numerous occasions.
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Tudor Lawrence Jones was born on 12 May 1878, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Jones, of Cefn-Coed, Breconshire, and was educated at Malvern College and Clare College, Cambridge. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, South Wales Borderers in 1898, and, following the outbreak of the Boer War, attested for the Imperial Yeomanry in London on 26 January 1900. He served with the 47th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Company, 13th Battalion in South Africa from 1 March to 23 October 1900, and was captured and taken Prisoner of War (along with the entirety of the 47th Company) by de Wet at Lindley on 31 May 1900. Released, he was discharged at his own request on 23 October 1900, after 257 days’ service. He died on 27 January 1904.
Sold with copied service papers, medal roll extract, and other research.
Sold also with various letters, newspaper cuttings, and other ephemera relating to Trooper L. Brooke, 47th Company, Imperial Yeomanry, who served in the same company as Tudor Lawrence Jones. Lionel Brooke, the son of Sir Richard Brooke, Bt., had emigrated to Canada aged 23 in 1882, and arriver at Pincher Creek, Alberta, ‘with his butler, and wearing a monocle’. Returning to the United Kingdom in 1900, he attested for the Imperial Yeomanry and served with the 47th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Company, 13th Battalion in South Africa; he was also captured and taken Prisoner of War at Lindley on 31 May 1900, and the letters and other ephemera give details of the action at Lindley. Sold also with a copy of the book ‘The Great Karoo’, by Fred Stenson, in which Brooke is mentioned on numerous occasions.
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