Name

Robert Jones

Description

Newspaper Photograph of Stoker Robert Jones

Life Story

Name: Robert Jones.

Service Number: 2249T.

Rank: Stoker.

Battalion: HMS Goliath.

Regiment: Royal Navy.

Born: 1st July 1875, Shankill, Belfast.

Died: 13th May 1915.

Address: 37 Hurst Street, Belfast

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Robert Jones, son of John and Margaret Jones, lived 37 Hurst Street, Belfast with his wife and children.

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The 1911 Ireland Census has Robert living at 28 Hurst Street, Belfast with his wife and two sons. His occupation at this time is given as Stoker

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Robert had married Margaret Jones, Nee Millar, on the 12th of July 1905 within Cliftonville Presbyterian Church, Parish of Shankill, Belfast.

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They went on to have four children, their names and dates of births are as follows, William John Jones born 11th November 1906, Robert Jones born 8th May 1909, Samuel born 1st February 1912, Walter Henry Jones born 26th February 1914

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Robert was a member of both the Orange Order Royal Oak L.O.L 374 and Royal Black Preceptory Belfast Temperance R.B.P 456

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Robert joined the Royal Navy on the 17th October 1904

He served on a number of ships throughout his career, including the following: HMS Prince George, HMS Hampshire, HMS Caesar, HMS Irresistible among them, before ending on HMS Goliath. His Character throughout his service is given as Very Good.

Robert Jones was a Stoker within the Royal Navy when while serving aboard HMS Goliath he Drowned, Lost At Sea on the 13th May 1915 aged 43 years, after his ship, HMS Goliath while supporting the landings of British Mediterranean Forces at Cape Helles, Y Beach, was hit by three torpedoes from the Ottoman Destroyer, the Muvenet-i Millye

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A local newspaper states.

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RANK AND FILE.

Belfast Families Bereaved.

BROTHERS DROWNED AT DARDENELLES.

Two cases of casualties to more than one member of the same family are reported. In the first two brothers serving on HMS Goliath were drowned in the Dardanelles, and in the second a Belfast man, who has three sons in the Canadians, has been notified one has been killed, the second wounded, and the third wounded and missing

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The men who have been drowned are Stoker Robert Jones RNR 2249T, and Seaman John Jones RNR 1268D. They perished with close on 500 of their shipmates when Goliath was torpedoed in the Dardanelles on 13th ult. Robert was the husband of Mrs Margaret Jones, 37 Hurst Street, Sandy Row, and leaves four little sons. He was a member of Royal Oak L.O.L 374 and Belfast Temperance R.B.P 456. Being a naval reservist he rejoined last August. He was at one time a soldier, and served in the Boer War with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. His brother John is survived by his wife and two children, who reside at 11 Sugarfield Street. He was a Queens Island worker, and a reservist

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Robert lived at 33 Boundary Street, Shankill Road Belfast at birth, and his address on enlistment documents is given as 128 Brookmount Street, Shankill Road Belfast also. These connections along with the fact that his Brother Johns entrance to the Shankill Great War website has earned him his place within this site

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Naval Pensions To Widows Of Men Whose Death Is Attributable To War like Operations show his wife Margaret as claimant.

Dependant Pension Application Forms show his widow as claimant.

A Pension Application Form shows his widow Margaret as claimant also

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See brother also: 1035U Stoker John Jones HMS Goliath Royal Navy

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Robert received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914-1915 Star.

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He is Remembered at Portsmouth Naval Memorial, United Kingdom.

To Remember Is To Honour

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