Paul Jones

Service number: 209

Rank: Driver

Unit: 20th Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Paul Jones was born in Manly in 1888. He was a driver. He enlisted on 13 March 1915, giving as next of kin his mother, who lived at Ashfield. He was small in stature, only 5’3” tall.

He embarked on 25 June 1915. He served with the 20th Battalion, then the 5th Training Squadron as a driver. He was disciplined for going AWOL in December 1916, and again in November 1917, when he was court-martialled.

He married Mercy Ellmore, a munitions worker at Fulham on 2 December 1917. In 1918 they were living at Stroud in Gloucestershire, where Paul undertook training in furniture making.

He returned to Australia on the Prinz Ludwigin July 1919.