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Aberyswyth Seaman Killed (1917)

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Date: 27 April 1917

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Aberystwyth Seaman Killed.

[photograph of Thomas Owen Jones]

Seaman THOMAS OWEN JONES, R.N.R.
Mrs. Margaret Jones, Hazel House, Portland-road, was notified on Tuesday that the ship on which her husband (Seaman Thomas Owen Jones) served was sunk by mine on the 20th, and that he was reported killed. He was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jones, Glan-rafon-terrace, and was very popular in the town. A brother is serving in Egypt. Great sympathy is felt with the widow and the members of his family.

Source:
'Aberystwyth Seaman Killed.' The Cambrian News and Welsh Farmers' Gazette. 27 Apr. 1917. 5.

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Welsh Newspapers Online, National Library of Wales
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Cambrian News and Welsh Farmers' Gazette
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21/8/2019
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27/4/1917
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