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Assistant Baker Ivor Bertie Jones

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Military service

Age: 35
Rank: Assistant Baker
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: HMT Royal Edward (Toronto, Ontario) (125656)
Birth: January 1, 1880 Bedminster, Bristol, England
Death: August 13, 1915 Aegean Sea

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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His real name is Ivor Bertram Jones.

Son of Levi Lewis Jones and Maria Hill of Bedminster, Bristol, England. Husband of Mabel Lillian Bowering of Eastville, Bristol. His wife married Harold Charles Thomas in the second marriage and their son, Sergeant Ivor Bertram Thomas, wireless operator with 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, serial number 1184086, was killed in action in Belgium on 22 May 1944.

Requisitioned by the British Admiralty, SS Royal Edward became HMT Royal Edward and was converted into a troop transport. While en route to Gallipoli, Turkey, with about 1,335 British troops, she was torpedoed by UB-14 6 miles (9.5 km) west of the Aegean Island of Kandeloussa and sank with 866 men, position 36°31'N/25°51'E.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 38 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom

THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.

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