Lives of the First World War

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ID: 9170336

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

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UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7271892/181/1692

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9170337

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Anne23518

UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7408541/30/881

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9170964

Title: The Little Gaddesden Roll of Honour

Description: The Roll of Honour, which hangs in St Peter & St Paul's Church, Little Gaddesden and lists 119 names of those from Little Gaddesden, Ringshall and Hudnall who served in the 1914 – 1918 War. Men who have answered their country’s call in defence of a “Scrap of Paper”. Sidney’s entry reads: JONES, Sidney. No regiment is given.

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Additional: Sidney's 'burnt documents' Service Records have survived, including his address at 20 Ringshall, from which he can be matched to this life story.

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ID: 9170983

Title: Headstone Sidney Jones and Family

Description: The headstone marking the grave of Sidney 'Jubal' Jones, his wife, daughter and son-in-law, which is located in the SW corner of the new churchyard of St Peter & St Paul's Church Little Gaddesden. Plot W.1. The headstone is erected in loving memory of Sidney 'Jubal' Jones 1887 - 1969 & Annie Jones 1886 - 1957, Jim & Nancy Somers (nee Jones) 1922 - 2004 (Jim), 1918 - 2006 (Nancy).

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Additional: The date given is for Sidney Jones' Burial; the headstone itself is more recent.

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ID: 9170985

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: GBC/1891/0009436070

Additional: His name and age fit with his Service Record. His address at 16 Ringshall (which was re-numbered as 20 Ringshall between 1891 and 1901) fits with his Service Record and with his inclusion on the Little Gaddesden Roll of Honour.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9170987

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: BMD/B/1887/2/AZ/000323/051

Additional: His name fits. His age fits with his Service Record and Census returns. The Birth Registration District fits with his birth and residence in Ringshall.

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ID: 9170993

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: GBC/1901/0009387634

Additional: His name, though spelt Sydney fits. His age and place of birth and his parents' names and ages fit their 1891 Census return. Their names also fit with his Baptism record. His address is that given on his Service Record and where he was living in 1891 (though then numbered 16, before the Ringshall cottages were re-numbered from the other end).

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9170996

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/07767/0211/3

Additional: His name fits. His age and place of birth and his parents' names fit with earlier Census returns for the family. Although the house is not named, the adjacent entries are numbered 19 and 21, so it is No 20, where the family were living previously and which is included in his Service Record.

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ID: 9171004

Name: Little Gaddesden Baptism Register 1813-1947 p140, no 1120

Title: Baptism Sidney James Jones

Description: Sidney James, son of James and Arabella Jones of Ringshall, baptised at St Peter & St Paul Little Gaddesden, 12th June 1887. His father James is listed as a Labourer.

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Additional: His name fits. His parents' names and the family's abode in Ringshall fit their Census returns. His Baptism in Little Gaddesden fits with his inclusion on the Little Gaddesden Roll of Honour.

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ID: 9171027

Name: Little Gaddesden Marriage Register p114, No 228

Reference: St Peter and St Paul's Church, Little Gaddesden

Title: Marriage Sidney Jones and Annie Hoar

Description: Marriage solemnised at the Parish Church in the parish of Little Gaddesden, October 24th 1916 between Sidney James Jones, 29, Batchelor, a Carpenter of 20 Ringshall and son of James Jones, Carpenter and Annie Hoar, 30, Spinster of Hudnall Farm and daughter of Edward Hoar, Farmer. Witnesses included Sidney’s married sister Gertrude Crawley.

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Additional: His name fits. His age, his father's name and their address fit the family's Census returns. His wife Annie is listed as his next of kin in his Service Record.

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ID: 9171039

Name: Little Gaddesden Burial Register 1813-1980 p186, No 1486

Reference: St Peter and St Paul's Church, Little Gaddesden

Title: Burial in Little Gaddesden

Description: Burial of Sidney James Jones, aged 81, of 1 Chapel Close, Hudnall Lane, at St Peter & St Paul Little Gaddesden, 7th March 1969. Part of the Service at the Grave was conducted by the Methodist Minister.

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Additional: His name and age fit. This is supported by the information on his headstone, which also commemorates his wife and daughter, both named with him in the 1939 Register.

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ID: 9171046

Name: Little Gaddesden Burial Register 1813-1980 p172, no1372

Reference: St Peter and St Paul's Church, Little Gaddesden

Title: Burial of Wife Annie

Description: Burial of Annie Jones, aged 71, of 20 Ringshall, at St Peter & St Paul Little Gaddesden, 22nd November 1957.

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Additional: Annie's name fits Sidney's wife Annie. Her age and address fit their entry in the 1939 Register. Her age and year of death fit information on their headstone in the churchyard.

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ID: 9171063

Name: 20 Ringshall, Berkhamsted R.D., Schedule 176.1

Title: 1939 Register entry Sidney Jones and Family

Description: The 1939 Register entry for Sidney J Jones b. 28th April 1887, a Carpenter, his wife Annie b. 30th December 1886, his daughter Annie G (Nancy) b. 25th December 1919, whose later married name was Somers, and one other for whom the 1939 Register remains closed, living at 20 Ringshall.

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Additional: His name fits. His date of birth fits with his Birth record. His wife's Christian name fits with their Marriage record. Their address fits with his family's Census return and is that given on his Service Record. The record is not a perfect fit as his daughter’s year of birth is given as 1919. However, both her Birth record and the inscription on the family headstone support this being 1918 and her later, married surname fits with information on the headstone.

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ID: 9171483

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: BMD/D/1969/1/AZ/000619/126

Additional: His name fits. His age and the date and place of death registration fit with his burial record.

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ID: 9171487

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: BMD/B/1919/1/AZ/000585/003

Additional: Records the birth of Sidney's daughter Annie. Her mother's maiden name matches Sidney's wife's on their Marriage record. The Birth Registration District fits with their residence in Ringshall.

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ID: 9171518

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: BMD/B/1872/2/AZ/000388/206

Additional: Records the birth of Sidney's eldest brother Robert. The Birth Registration District fits with his place of birth recorded in the family's 1881 and 1891 Census returns.

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ID: 9171519

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: BMD/B/1875/1/AZ/000309/033

Additional: Records the birth of Sidney's second brother Wallace. The Birth Registration District fits with his place of birth recorded in the family's 1881 and 1891 Census returns.

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ID: 9171521

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: BMD/B/1877/2/AZ/000316/045

Additional: Records the birth of Sidney's elder sister Henrietta. The Birth Registration District fits with her place of birth recorded in the family's 1881 and 1891 Census returns.

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ID: 9171523

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: BMD/B/1879/3/AZ/000308/310

Additional: Records the birth of Sidney's second sister Gertrude. The Birth Registration District fits with her place of birth recorded in the family's 1881 and 1891 Census returns.

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ID: 9171528

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: GBC/1881/0007659422

Additional: 1881 Census for Sidney's parents and four older siblings at Ringshall. Their names, ages and places of birth fit with those in their 1891 Census return in which Sidney is included.

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ID: 9171554

Name: Spring 1919, Little Gaddesden, p4, No 246

Title: 1919 Electoral Register Hudnall Farm

Description: Spring 1919 Electoral Register for Little Gaddesden, Parliamentary County of Hertfordshire, Hemel Hempstead Division, which shows Sidney Jones registered to vote at Hudnall Farm, which was his wife's parents' home. He remains registered there throughout 1919 and 1920.

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Additional: His name fits. The address is shown as his wife's address in their Marriage record. His wife Annie is not shown, as she would not have been eligible to vote, but his brother-in-law Richard Hoar is shown on the same page and his parents-in-law Edward and Sophia Hoar are shown on p2.

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ID: 9171565

Name: Autumn 1925, Little Gaddesden, p4, No 135,

Title: 1925 Electoral Register 20 Ringshall

Description: The Autumn 1925 Electoral register which shows Sidney James Jones registered to vote at 20 Ringshall, where he is shown until the last record in the set in 1930. His wife Annie is shown from 1929, once eligible to vote.

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Additional: His name fits and, shown from 1929, so does his wife Annie's. He is again living at 20 Ringshall, which had been his family's home and where he and Annie are shown again in the 1939 Register.

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ID: 9171648

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7271892/181/1690

Additional: His name fits. His military details fit with his 1916 Service Record, which is the seed record for this life story. His age and initial address fit with his family's Census returns and his demob address fits with his wife's address on their 1916 Marriage record and shown for his next of kin in this record.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9171767

Name: ISBN 0-9542174-0-3

Reference: Personal copy

Title: A Century Remembered

Description: Leonhardt, John (ed), 2002, A Century Remembered - a celebration of the Millenium in Little Gaddesden, Rural Heritage Society of Little Gaddesden, Ringshall and Ashridge.

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Additional: He is mentioned in the book in an article about the Home Guard; he is called Jubal Jones, the name by which he was locally known.

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ID: 9224460

Title: The Little Gaddesden Home Guard 1942

Description: 1942 Photo of the Little Gaddesden Home Guard which includes Jubal Jones seated on the bench, at the left hand end.

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Additional: This photo is included in 'A Century Remembered', in which a number of the men, including Sidney James (Jubal) Jones are named beside it. It is included here with permission of the contributor.

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ID: 9349454

Title: Opening of Hudnall Methodist Church 1940

Description: Group photograph taken at the opening of the Methodist Church in Hudnall Lane, Good Friday 1940. Sidney 'Jubal' Jones is seated front centre. His wife Annie is just behind him. Back right are Reginald Purton and his wife Kit. The photo was included in 'A Century Remembered' and is included here with permission of the editor.

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ID: 9351793

Name: Jones, Sidney, entered 20th April 1891, left 30th April 1900

Reference: Little Gaddesden School Archive

Title: Little Gaddesden School Log Books 1887 – 1906

Description: The log book kept by the Headmasters of Little Gaddesden School which records points of note in the daily running of the school and information about the pupils. Sidney Jones entered the school 20th April 1891 and left 30th April 1900.

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Additional: His name fits. This record fits with his family's Census returns. He lived at Ringshall so this was his nearest school.

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ID: 9370882

Title: Northamptonshire Regiment WW1 Cap Badge

Description: Cap Badge of the Northamptonshire Regiment in which Sidney Jones first served.

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ID: 9370884

Title: Middlesex Regiment WW1 Cap Badge

Description: Cap badge of the Middlesex Regiment into which Sidney Jones was transferred in February 1917.

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Additional: Sidney's transfer to the Middlesex Regiment is confirmed in his Service Record.

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ID: 9618401

Title: Little Gaddesden Roll of Honour revised 2018

Description: The 2018 Revised Roll of Honour, which now hangs in St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Little Gaddesden in addition to the earlier Roll. Sidney Jones’ service details have been added, following the practice common on the earlier Roll of listing the first regiment in which the man served.

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