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“If you think, have a kindly thought, If you speak, speak generously, Of those who as heroes fought And died to keep you free”
Set up by the Black Country Society. Our aim is to highlight local men who died in the Great War and how they have been commemorated on war memorials. Its scope covers the whole of the present Dudley Municipal Borough and therefore includes the places which have come within its bounds since 1914.
There are over fifty memorials and the number of names exceeds three thousand. Research on the names has been extensive but inevitably errors and omissions occur. We would like to hear about them concentrated on life and work before 1914, involvement in military campaigns and where each man is buried or commemorated.
Arthur Jones was the son of Edward and Rosa Mary Jones of 410 Hagley Road, Hasbury, and attended Hasbury school. He enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters and went to the 11th Battalion. In 1916 they spent July at La Boisselle at the start of the Battle of the Somme and October near Flers. In 1917 they moved to the Flanders sector and fought on the Messines ridge. Then they were moved to Ypres for the Third Battle of Ypres and in September they were at Hooge anticipating an attack along the Menin Road. However, a new form of attack by German aircraft had started and several men were killed by bombs. Among them was Private Arthur Jones on the 4th September. He was 24 years of age and is commemorated on the Menin Gate, Halesowen and Hasbury school Memorials.
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Hagley Road, Halesowen, West Midlands B63 4QD
