Jones Leonard Howson Lieutenant 276395 - Revision history

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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Jones Leonard Howson
|Army number=276395
|Rank=Lieutenant
|Decorations=Not known
|Date of birth=Not yet known
|Age=Aged 21 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry.
|Company/Battery=Not yet confirmed.
|Task or role=Not known
|Joined Brigade=Not known
|Promotions=Not known
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Killed in Action 18/6/1944. Initially interred at Ducy-St-Marguerite, map reference 858.734, and subsequently re-buried in Grave XIV. K. 19. Bayeux War Cemetery on 14/2/1945. Inscription - "OUR BELOVED, BEAUTIFUL BOY. HIS FACE, HIS VOICE, HIS SMILE, REMAIN FOR EVER".
|Home address=Son of Leonard Howson Jones and Catherine Mary Jones. of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
}}

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 |Wounded=Not as far as is known.
 |Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
-|Died/Killed in action=Killed in Action 18/6/1944.  Initially interred at Ducy-St-Marguerite, map reference 858.734, and subsequently re-buried in Grave XIV. K. 19. Bayeux War Cemetery on 14/2/1945.  Inscription - "OUR BELOVED, BEAUTIFUL BOY. HIS FACE, HIS VOICE, HIS SMILE, REMAIN FOR EVER".
+|Died/Killed in action=Killed in Action 18/6/1944.  Initially interred at [[Ducy-St-Marguerite]], map reference 858.734, and subsequently re-buried in Grave XIV. K. 19. Bayeux War Cemetery on 14/2/1945.  Inscription - "OUR BELOVED, BEAUTIFUL BOY. HIS FACE, HIS VOICE, HIS SMILE, REMAIN FOR EVER".
 |Home address=Son of Leonard Howson Jones and Catherine Mary Jones. of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
 |Image Name=Leonard_Howson_JONES_2nd_Kensingtons.jpg
 |Image Title=CWGC Headstone Lt Leonard Howson JONES, 2nd Kensingtons.
 }}

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 |Date of birth=Not yet known
 |Age=Aged 21 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry.
+|Unit=Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment 15/5/1943.  Posted to 2nd Battalion, Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment.  Killed in Action 18/6/1944.
 |Company/Battery=Not yet confirmed.
 |Task or role=Not known
 |Joined Brigade=Not known
-|Promotions=Not known
+|Promotions=War Substantive Lieutenant (date not yet known).
 |Wounded=Not as far as is known.
 |Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.