Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 2

T IRAH C AMPAIGN 1897

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name DAVID EDWARD OSBORNE JONES (Lt)

L EFT SES 1887

R OLL N UMBER 559

S ET / H OUSE NA

A RRIVE SES 1883

D IED 22:11:1897

W HERE DWA TOI, NORTH WEST INDIA S ERVING WITH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT

A GE 27

Buried Where he fell Remembered Llandingat Church, Llandovery, South Wales and The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Brass Plate)

Born Llandovery 1870, the son of a clergyman, a classical scholar and a prominent member of the School choir and a thespian. He was ‘too slightly built to attain any distinction in games’ (Chronicle). After leaving School he had further private tuition, allowing him to enter The Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1889, from where was commissioned in the Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment in 1890. With his regiment he travelled to India in 1897 as part of the ‘Tirah Expedition’ to restore order against local tribes, in a British controlled area of the Indian Frontier (in today’s Pakistan) and was with General Westmacott’s Brigade’s ‘wonderful march up the torrent into Dwa Toi’ (Chronicle). The West Yorks formed the right flank of this advance which was fired upon by hidden marksmen, who killed Jones and a Lance Corporal and wounded another officer who tried to rescue them. Jones had been the first British officer to reach the Arrange Pass when he was killed.