DEATH TO ME
SHORT WARNING GAVE
THEREFORE BE CAREFUL
HOW YOU LIVE

PRIVATE IVOR GRAFTON JONES

ROYAL WELCH FUSILIERS

2ND MAY 1916 AGE 22

BURIED: BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION N, FRANCE


This is a classic gravestone inscription, which is usually followed by some sort of instruction to:
Prepare in time, do not delay
For no one knows their dying day.
Private Jones came from Ton Pentre, a small mining community in the Rhondda Valley, where non-conformism was very strong. He died from the effects of gas at a Casualty Clearing Station in Bailleul.