JONES, Kenneth Herbert

Kenneth was born 1913 in Ryde to  Montague Reginald & Fanny Louisa (nee COLEMAN) JONES of 7 Albany Road, Hunnyhill in Newport. He married Josephine Beatrice FELTHAM in 1937 at St. John's Church in Newport & although both from Newport, they were living in Feltham, Surrey at the time of Kenneth's death on 15th of January 1943 at the Dartford Hospital in Kent.

Kenneth died from an injury received whilst undergoing training for a commission. During exercises at a training centre in Kent, Kenneth was struck in the stomach by a piece of shrapnel from a bomb which had been exploded some 200 yards away. He was successfully operated on for the removal of the fragment, but peritonitis set in & he died the following day. Kenneth was brought back to the Island for burial.