Info 2h, Redmond harry owen Jones

Info 2h, Redmond harry owen Jones

Redmond was born 23rd April 1858 at Binnum, Australia

Naracoote, Lucindale Council, South Australia

When Heighway Jones and family returned to England it appears they took with them their nephew Redmond son of Frances Caton and Henry owen Jones.


1871 census
source                 RG10; Piece: 2544; Folio: 87; Page: 57
place                     Clifton district 19 Gloucestershire
dwelling                 Roxborough House, College Rd west, schedule  165

Redmond H O Jones    12    pupil                  south Australia

The Register 1925
Mr. Redmond Jones, left Clifton College. England, at 17, and returned to Australia, where he spent some time gaining stock and station experience.
Forty years ago Mr. (now Sir) John Grice commissioned him to take a big lot of horses from Albury to Manfred Downs, his station in Queensland; they were nearly a year on the road, such were the difficulties of travelling stock in a terrible drought year.

The Argus, Monday 19th November 1883
Pastrol Intelligence, (By Telegraph) From our own Correspondent, Howlong N.S.W.
Saturday, Stock Passing;- Forty Eight horses en-route for Northern Queensland .
Mr.John Grice owner; Mr.Redmond Jones in Charge, The weather is Warm.

For four years Mr. Redmond Jones was on the Western Australian goldfields.
At the outbreak of the Boer war he went to Durban, and enlisted in the South African Light Horse, commanded by Col. the Hon. Julian Byng, now Lord Byng, of Vimy, Governor General of Canada. The Australian served as trooper for three months, and was on the staff with six others as scouts. He was twice wounded in the war. In 1908 he returned to his native land, and bought a farm on the Gippsland Lakes, which he left in 1914, and remained in England doing 'his bit' for his country until 1921.

The Argus, Monday 19th November 1883
Pastrol Intelligence, (By Telegraph) From our own Correspondent, Howlong N.S.W. Saturday, Stock Passing;- Forty Eight horses en-route for Northern Queensland . Mr.John Grice owner; Mr.Redmond Jones in Charge, The weather is Warm.

1912 Electoral Roll
METUNG; Cunninghame, Gippsland Victoria
Redmond Harry Owen Jones occupation Grazier


1913 Victoria Directory
Metung, 
Redmond H. O. Jones
Occupation; Grazier



1914 Electoral Roll
Cunninghame, Gippsland Victoria
Redmond Harry Owen Jones

S S. Benalla,  P.&O. Shipping line  to Australia via Cape
Departure;   England;     21st January 1915 
Arrival;     Melbourne     2nd March   1915
Redmond H. O. Jones, Grazier  aged 51 


S.S. Ascanius, Blue Funnel line 
glasgow  for Adelaid,Melbourne,Sydney via Cape
Departure 6th March 1920 
R.H.O. Jones for Melbourne

Bairnsdale Advertiser, Thursday 4th March 1954 page 1
RETURNED MEN MAN STRONG POST Seven hundred returned men from several theatres of war manned a strong post near the railway station at Sale, on Wednesday. The “marshal was Mr. Gordon Drane, formerly of the 13th Light Horse Regiment, who won the military medal and bar inthe first world war. VETERANS of the South African war were prominent many of them being in their eighties, and they recalled with pride the comradeship that existed in those far-off days and which was emulated by the men of the 1914-18 war and the 1939 45 conflict. Bairnsdale's oldest soldier, Mr. Redmond Jones, aged 96 years,who had looked forward to seeing the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, and who was to have been the special care of members of the Bairnsdale- sub-branch of the R.S.E., was taken ill on Tuesday evening. and was unable to make the trip. It was'a great disappointment to Mr. Jones that he was unable to attend, also to his comrades at Bairnsdale. He served with an English regiment in the South African War. Included in the ranks were men from many districts of Gippsland, and friendships were renewed and incidents recalled of the fighting in many countries in which men of the A.I.P. had been engaged.

Bairnsdale Advertiser, Thursday 4th March 1954 page 1

RETURNED MEN MAN STRONG POST
Seven hundred returned men from several theatres of war manned a strong post near the railway station at Sale, on Wednesday. The “marshal was Mr. Gordon Drane, formerly of the 13th Light Horse Regiment, who won the military medal and bar inthe first world war.
VETERANS of the South African war were prominent many of them being in their eighties, and they recalled with pride the comradeship that existed in those far-off days and which was emulated by the men of the 1914-18 war and the 1939 45 conflict.

Bairnsdale's oldest soldier, Mr. Redmond Jones, aged 96 years,who had looked forward to seeing the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, and who was to have been the special care of members of the Bairnsdale- sub-branch of the R.S.E., was taken ill on Tuesday evening. and was unable to make the trip. It was'a great disappointment to Mr. Jones that he was unable to attend, also to his comrades at Bairnsdale. He served with an English regiment in the South African War. Included in the ranks were men from many districts of Gippsland, and friendships were renewed and incidents recalled of the fighting in many countries in which men of the A.I.P. had been engaged.

RIP

Redmond H. O. Jones, Gentleman. died 27th July 1955, Bainsdale, East Gippsl;and Shire, Vic. aged 98
probate grant. 20 January 1956

Buried Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Springvale City, Greater Dandenong, Vic. Au.
plot Pittosporum, Wall 3CC, Niche 136

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