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CAPT. P. B. JONES (O.P.)
3rd Battalion Middlesex Regiment. The following is an extract from the Yorks. Herald. Mr. J. Edmund Jones, solicitor, of York and Scarborough, has received an official intimation that his second son, Capt. Percy Barrett Jones, of the 3rd Middlesex Regiment, was killed in action in France on September 3oth. Capt. Jones is another old boy of St. Peter's School to lay down his life for his country. After leaving St. Peter's School, he went to Christ's College, Breckon. He served during the South African Campaign with the 3rd East Yorks. (Militia), and, at the close of the war, received a nomination for a line regiment, and was gazetted to the ist Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment which he joined at Quetta, India. Subsequently Capt. Jones entered the Indian Army and served several years with the 5th Light Infantry, and three years ago he was transferred to the Middlesex Regiment, and stationed at the Depot at Mill Hill. He joined his regiment which came from India, six months ago in France, and took part in the second battle of Ypres. The deceased officer, who was 34 years of age, leaves a widow and child, and to them and his parents the greatest sympathy will be extended in their sad bereavement.
LIEUT. J. R. A. RIGBY (O.P.) 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. The following is an extract from the Yorks. Herald. The Rev. J. Rigby, vicar of Sheriff Hutton, has received intimation from the War Office to the effect that his only son, Lieut. J. R. A. Rigby, B.A., of the 2nd Batt. Yorkshire Regiment, was killed in action between September 25th
