Lieutenant, Ivor Cynric SALUSBURY-JONES
Aged 22
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Ivor Cynric SALUSBURY-JONES was born in Sutton Valence, Kent (Hollingbourne Q1-1894 2A:775), son of Reverend Thomas and Martha SALUSBURY-JONES (née TIDY).
1901 census...Aged 7, he was at the Congregational Church Manse, Sutton Valence, Kent with his brothers Merfyn H [4] and Goronwy T [1], all born in Sutton Valence. Apparently that night in the care of domestic nurse Lizzie Harris and general servant Annie Rayner. His father Thomas SALUSBURY JONES [38] Congregational Minister born St Asaph, Flintshire was visiting John and Charlotte BADCOCK at Fir House, Wratting Road, Haverhill, with his mother Martha [37] born Paddington, London. His brother Tudor [5] born Sutton Valence was with his aunts Elizabeth and Matilda TIDY at 9 Hamilton Terrace, Marylebone. 1911 census...Aged 17, a scholar, he was at West End Manse, Haverhill with his parents; brothers Tudor [15], Merfyn Harman and Gornwy Tidy; sister Olwen Evadne [5] (born Haverhill). His parents later moved on to 16 Waterloo Avenue, Leiston. His younger brother Merfyn was killed serving in France in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1918 see here |
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The South West Suffolk Echo of 30th September 1916 reported that:- "Haverhill's sons continue to fall at the Front, and this week it is with regret that we record the deaths of two more, Lieut. I.C.S. Jones , of the King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry), son of the Rev. T. Salisbury Jones, Pastor of the West End Congregational Church, and Mrs. Jones, had only been at the Front for about a fortnight, and in the trenches four days, when he was wounded. Five days later, on Thursday in last week he succumbed to the injuries he received. He was only 22 years of age, and was a young man of much promise." the other was "Pte. Wm. Claydon, of the Cambridgeshire Regt., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Claydon, of 17, Hamlet Road, was killed at the Front on Friday last. He was 23 years of age, and had been in the trenches for about eight weeks. He left Haverhill a few years ago and went to Canada where he lived until he enlisted. " From the Perse School Facebook page we learn that as soon as he took his Tripos examination at Christ's College he applied for a commission through the C.U.O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lt in the 3rd/5th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry on July 6th 1915. Promoted to Lieutenant in January 1916, so long as he remained with the reserve battalion.Although specially trained in the use of the machine gun, he went to France on September 2nd to join his service battalion as an ordinary infantry officer. On the night of September 16th, exactly a fortnight after leaving England, he was seriously wounded by a shell at Thiepval whilst going out to examine a sap at the front. As a result of his wounds he passed away at No 3 Casualty Clearing Station (Puchevillers). On the "Living Relaives" his parents, brother Gornwy and sister Olwen were at West End Manse, brother Tudor was in the Royal Engineers "A" Troop, with 5th Cavalry Division in France and brother Merfyn was in the Cadet Battalion at Downing College, Cambridge. |
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