Captain Charles Edward Coursolles JONES (1897)

10th (Service) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Born 1879 in Brighton
Killed in action 4 July 1916, aged 37
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Charles Jones was the son of Major Charles Jones and Mary Jane, née Ross. He married Margaret Lois Garrett, niece to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Dame Millicent Garret Fawcett, on 28th April 1911. They had a daughter and two sons. He and his wife were part of a close-knit group of friends, most of whom were at Cambridge; Florence Roma Muir Wilson’s novel If all these young men, published in 1921, is thought to be based on their experiences.

Already a long-standing member of the Royal Warwickshires—he had been made Second Lieutenant on 21 April 1900, and Lieutenant on 1 March 1901—Jones was called up on Boxing Day, 1914.

He was killed in action at La Boiselle on 4 July 1916, during the Battle of the Somme.