Lives of the First World War

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ID: 7574232

Reference: AIR76

Title: British RAF Officers 1912-1920

Description: Officers who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) between 1912-1920. This record set contains records of around 100,000 RAF officers.

UPP: GBM/AIR76/48154

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9331599

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records Transcription

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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/182961

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 9333261

Title: 1911 Census Jersey, Channel Islands

Description: Robert Colvill Jones, Junr, age 14, born Argentine Republic, with parents, Robert & Abbie Jane Colvill Jones at Elysee, Trinity Road, St Helier, Jersey.

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URL: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC/1911/RG14/34918/0065/3
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ID: 9333276

Reference: wwisd

Title: Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Transcription

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UPP: GBM/WWISD/1028257

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 9333277

Title: Britain, Campaign, Gallantry & Long Service Medals & Awards

Description: Robert Colvill-Jones. T/2Lt 13th Bn Rifle Brigade. Military Cross, 1914-1918. Killed (Captain att RAF) Western Front 4 Nov 1918, aged 22. Son of R.Colvill-Jones of Calle Cangalo 456, Buenos Aires, Argentina. London Gazette refs: 30308/26 Sep 1917; 30466/9 Jan 1918(C).

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URL: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBM/NMPMEDALS/024818
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ID: 9341135

Name: WO 339/70248

Title: Captain Robert Colville-Jones, Royal Flying Corps, service record

Description: Service record of Captain Robert Colville-Jones, in the Royal Flying Corps.

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URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1124084
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ID: 9341718

Title: Dulwich College Register, entry for Robert Colvill-Jones

Description: Robert Colvill-Jones. born 27 Sept 1896... Great War. 13th Bn. Rifle Brigade, 2nd Lt, Aug 1915; Lt, Aug 1916; acting Capt, July 1917; RAF, w (4); MC, 1917. Killed in Action, 4 Nov 1918.

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URL: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBOR/SCH-DULW/497/8796
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ID: 9341808

Name: MH 106/385

Title: 2nd Lt. R Colvill-Jones, 13th Rifle B, admitted 3 CCS, 14 Nov 1916

Description: Soldiers' Medical Records, Officers Hospital Admission/Discharge Registers. R Colvill-Jones, 2nd Lt, 13th Rifle B[rigade]. Admitted 14 Nov 1916, to no. 3 ccs. with GSW. Transferred 14 Nov 1916 to No. 18 AT.

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URL: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBM/MH106/306028
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ID: 9341881

Name: London Gazette, 8 Jan 1918

Title: Citation for Military Cross awarded to T./2nd Lt. Robert Colvill-Jones, Rifle Brigade

Description: Supplement Issue 30466, 9 Jan 1918, p 595. [awarded Military Cross]. T./2nd Lt. Robert Colvill-Jones, Rifle Brigade. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. With great skill and initiative he pushed forward his outpost line in daylight in full view of the enemy, and established them in shell holes, afterwards taking out a strong patrol by night and establishing an advanced post within forty yards of the enemy. Although several casualties were sustained, his object was attained, which was that of observation, and during the whole of this period he made several daring reconnaissances by daylight in front of the line, displaying great coolness and absolute disregard of danger.

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30466/supplement/595
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ID: 9341892

Name: London Gazette, 25 Sept 1917

Title: T/2nd Lt. R Colvill-Jones, Rifle Brigade, awarded Military Cross, Sept 1917

Description: Supplement. 26 Sept 1917. Issue 30308. p 9973. Awarded the Military Cross:- T/2nd Lt. Robert Colvill-Jones, Rifle Brigade.

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30308/supplement/9973
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ID: 9341910

Title: Airmen died in the Great War, entry for Robert Colvill-Jones

Description: Airmen died in the Great War. Robert Colvill-Jones, MC, age 22, born 1896. Native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Captain, 57 Squadron, RAF. Previous service: with 13th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Observer with Lt. A E Bourns in DH4 A7652. Killed in Action, 4/11/18. Buried at Ghissignies, France. Brother of Capt T Colvill-Jones.

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URL: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBM/NMPWW1AIRMEN/001005
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ID: 9343824

Title: Dulwich College website. Details for Capt. Robert Colvill-Jones

Description: Dulwich College website, The Fallen of the Great War. Details for Capt. Robert Colvill-Jones, with photo. Date of birth: 27 Sept 1896. Death: 4 Nov 1918. Where he died or was wounded: Ypres. Years attended the College: 1910-1910. Regiment: Royal Air Force. Final Rank: Captain.

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URL: https://dulwichcollege1914-18.co.uk/fallen/colvill-jones-r/
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ID: 9345891

Name: 'Your Ever Loving Son' by Lorraine Colvill-Jones, 2008.

Title: Careers of Colvill-Jones brothers

Description: 'Your Ever Loving Son' by Lorraine Colvill Jones, 2008. The story of the first Argentine 'Ace' of the First World War - based on letters from Capt. Thomas Colvill-Jones and his elder brother Capt. Robert Colvill-Jones to their family.

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ID: 9346918

Title: Link on this website to brother, Capt. Thomas Colvill-Jones, RAF

Description: Link to Capt. Thomas Colvill-Jones on this website. Younger brother of Robert Colvill-Jones.

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URL: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/2175615
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ID: 9348369

Title: Victoria College, Jersey, entry (including Photo) for Captain Robert Colvill-Jones, M.C.

Description: History Alive Tours, Jersey, entry (including Photograph) for Captain Robert Colvill-Jones, M.C. From Book of Remembrance of Victoria College, Jersey, published 1920. "He and his two brothers entered College in January 1911, and remained till midsummer in the following year when the family returned to the Argentine. Robert was barely eighteen when he came over with a large number of other young Englishmen from South America for war service in September 1914. He was given a commission in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC) and served with distinction through some of the fiercest fighting of the war, in the course of which he was promoted Captain."

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URL: http://www.historyalive.je/2016/11/04/captain-robert-colvill-jones-military-cross/
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