Description: FISHGUARD JONES FAMILY STORAGE d8 original letter 21 x 13 cm pertinent to Lieutenant E. D. Jones, Royal Air Force, late Army Cyclist Corps and Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in action while serving as a pilot in No. 10 Squadron in Flanders on 2 April 1918poignant item Lt Evan D Jones had a career in which he became an RFC pilot , he was killed in action over the Trenches in 1918 ....Lieutenant Evan Davies Jones was born in January 1893, the son of Sir Evan Davies Jones, Bt., and his wife, Cecilia Ann Jones, of Pentower, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. Having been commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Cyclist Corps direct from the O.T.C. shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, Jones witnessed active service in France during the course of 1915-16. Transferring to the Royal Flying Corps as an Observer in the latter year, he was posted to No. 2 Squadron and flew operationally in the period December 1916 to April 1917. Returning to the home establishment to undertake pilot training, he duly gained his ‘Wings’ and rejoined No. 2 in October but was hospitalised in early December, when he was found ‘unfit for any service’ and sent home on leave. Jones returned to an operational footing in mid-February 1918, when he joined No. 10 Squadron, in which capacity he flew at least 20 sorties prior to his death in action on 2 April. A letter to his father, provided details of his son’s death: ‘I am very sorry to have to tell you of the death of your son Evan Davies Jones on April 2nd. He and his Observer left the ground at 12.30 p.m. on Counter-Attack Patrol, and from all evidence we can gather he had dived down on some target in the enemy lines. At any rate, he was flying very low, and was heavily fired at by enemy machine-guns. He was seen to turn back, partly shut off his engine, and glide back into our own lines. When so low that their heads could be seen, the pilot seemed to disappear, as tho' he had fainted and fallen forward, and the machine at once dived straight into the ground. A party of Infantry were within a few yards, and a Medical Officer also, but they found the machine totally wrecked and both occupants dead - undoubtedly killed at once. They were buried yesterday at the Cemetery at Remy, about one mile south of Poperinghe. Jones had many friends in this Squadron whom he knew before he came here - They all wish me to offer their sincerest sympathy.’
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