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| THE HEADSTONE OVER THE GRAVE OF CAPTAIN HENRY MITCHELL JONES VC, ROYAL FUSILIERS, IN OCKLYNGE OLD CEMETERY, EASTBOURNE, HAS BEEN CLEANED AND REFURBISHED. |
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| 23 January 2022 |
| Captain Henry Mitchell Jones VC died in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on the 18th December 1916 and was buried in the town's Ocklynge Old Cemetery with a very distinctive headstone erected over his grave. Owing to the marker's low elevation it was often difficult to find within the cemetery, but now, owing to the efforts of Steve Davies, the headstone has been brought back to its almost original state with a really good clean. ( Henry Jones' middle name is 'Mitchell' but for some unknown reason he often adobpted the name 'Michael' as shown on the marker ). |
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Jones' grave: before and after |
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| For the award of the Victoria Cross [ London Gazette, 25 September 1857 ], Sebastopol, Crimea, 4 June 1855, Captain Henry Mitchell Jones, 7th Regiment ( Royal Fusiliers )
For having distinguished himself, while serving with the party which stormed and took the Quarries, before Sebastopol, by repeatedly leading on his men to repel the continued assaults of the enemy during the night. Although wounded early in the evening Captain Jones remained unflinchingly at his post until after daylight the following morning.
Henry Jones was invested with his Victoria Cross by Lieutenant Colonel T Pattle at Canterbury, Kent, in June 1863.
Henry Jones' Victoria Cross medal group is held by the Army Museum of New South Wales at Victoria Barracks, Sydney, Australia |
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Iain Stewart, 26 January 2022