Thursday 15th April 1920

The Controller of the Officers Casualties Department at the Military Secretary’s Office wrote to Pte. George Jones in answer to his query regarding his brother, 2Lt. William Jones MM (see 11^th January); “With reference to your letter of 11^th January, which has just been passed to this Department after many enquiries had been made, I am directed by the Military Secretary to inform you that it has been ascertained that No.11967 Company Sergeant Major William Jones, West Riding Regiment,was transferred to the 7^th Officers Cadet Battalion on the 10^th March 1917, and was discharged t a commission in the 3^rd Border Regiment on the 29^th March 1917. I am to add that 2^nd Lieutenant William Jones, Border Regiment, was admitted to No.2 General Hospital, Havre, on the 28^th March 1918 and discharged to duty on the 10^th April 1918. He was subsequently gazetted out of the service with effect from the 4^th of May 1919, at which date he was holding the rank of Temporary Lieutenant. No information has been received in this Department of this officer’s death.”