Todger: Thomas Jones VC, DCM, 1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment

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Such was the special relationship that formed between William Jones VC and his new family, that Albert Ulundi Frodsham, later Jones, would list his father as 'William Jones VC, pensioner', on his marriage certificate, and father a son, also called Albert Ulundi Jones, born 1904.Albert Ulundi Frodsham would die under the name Albert Ulundi Jones. Elizabeth Frodsham, born 1883,later Jones, would use her 'Jones' name when she married and became Barlow. Elizabeth Barlow, as a lady in her early eighties, would carry out work of the highest calibre on behalf of William Jones VC when she toured Lancashire and Yorkshire to promote the film Zulu; she was guest of honour at the film's premier in Manchester . Also worth a mention is the work carried out by a descendant of Emily Goodwin's to replace the vandalized urn that rested on William Jones VC's grave. Brazier, Kevin. The Complete Victoria Cross : A Full Chronological Record of All Holders of Britain's Highest Award for Gallantry . Pen and Sword.

Here's my list of VC and DCM for WW1 - all British Army unless stated. I've got 30 but as the BBC say 32 I may well be missing 2The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a moment of enduring fascination more than a century after the day the First World War guns fell silent. Now for the first time, hundreds of first-person accounts of this most extraordinary period of history have been gathered together telling the story in their own words of the soldiers who met in peace in No Man’s Land.

Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones (27 September 1876 – 6 January 1900) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, [1] the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Marshall, P. J. (1996). The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-00254-0. You must get on with your digging, Jones” said he, but up I jumped and called out “If I’ve got to be killed, I’ll die fighting, not digging.” SIXTH SUPPLEMENT TO The London Gazette Of TUESDAY, the 8th of JANUARY, 1918". The London Gazette (30471): 725. 11 January 1918. The place of sanctuary for the Frodsham family and William Jones VC, may have been the house of Elizabeth Frodsham's, now married daughter, Emily Goodwin, who was born 4th November 1868.Emily, despite that her birth certificate states that it was Charles Frodsham who was her natural father, would later be quoted as 'the daughter of 593 Pte William Jones VC' and it is ironic that this possible first port of call in Manchester, the Goodwin household, was the household that William Jones VC would die in. The move to Manchester may have been the start of a new life for the Frodsham's and William Jones, that would develop into a family-style relationship that would later include the marriage of Elizabeth Frodsham and William Jones .As William was a Wesleyan Methodist, a reasonably strict religion, and that he was a 'steady-plodding fellow' as stated on his service records, he may have grown close to Elizabeth and her family as a result of his lodger status in the household. The family and Jones may have been through a good deal of turmoil together and these trails would have created a natural bond between these individuals that would have formed the foundations for a later relationship. With the trees that were snapped we kept on replacing them but in the end we couldn’t afford it." Read More Related Articles

He was also in the Territorials and won various awards for his Marksmanship. (including the Territorial Efficiency Medal)Last night, reading the history of the Cheshire Regiment, I came across reference to "Todger" Jones and enjoyed reading his CV citation. It states:- A Cheshire police spokeswoman said the force had not received any reports of criminal damage, but officers were called to reports of youths throwing objects at cars near the Birchfield Road entrance to Victoria Park at around 8pm last night.