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Stones, J.W., L/Sgt., 1917

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In St. Pol Communal Cemetery Extension is the Commonwealth War Grave of 19/647 Lance Sergeant Joseph William Stones, serving with the 19th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, who died on the 18/01/1917.

Lance Sergeant Joseph William Stones was shot at dawn on 18th January 1917, for casting away his arms and running away from the front line, at the same time as Lance-Corporal McDonald, (Millfield Sunderland) and Lance-Corporal Peter Goggins (South Moor). All three lie side by side in St. Pol cemetery.

Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great War Cathryn Corns and John Hughes-Wilson; Cassell;2001; ISBN 0 304 36449 5

Shot at Dawn Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes; New and revised edition; Leo Cooper; 1989 ISBN 9 780850 295 1

Joseph William Stones is remembered at Crook on C121.04 and at Durham in D47.013a page 8. Also at the National Memorial Arboretum


The CWGC entry for Lance Sergeant Stones

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk

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