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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC and other Headstones -
- Northwood Cemetery (Cowes) : John Stones -

Location

In Northwood Cemetery, Cowes, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Standard CWGC headstone. WW I pattern.
Grave Location : 8280
Headstone


 
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Inscription


35654 PRIVATE
J STONES
ROYAL DEFENCE CORPS
28TH MARCH 1920 AGE 55
+
AT PEACE


 
Further Information

John Stones
 
Born : 1866, Northamptonshire.
 
Married : 1892, Hariet Elizabeth Speed, Alverstoke, Hampshire.
 
Census 1911 : John and Harriet Stones, with thier children, are at 7 Mary street, Cowes, Isle of Wight. John Stones is a Blacksmith.
 
CWGC record ...
 


 
Also served in the South African War with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and later with the 1/8th Bn Hampshire Regiment (Isle of Wight Rifles)


 
 

 
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