Jones, Rupert, Sgt

Deceased

Photo In Uniform

Service Details

Last Rank
Sergeant

Last Service Branch
Signal Corps

Last Primary MOS
128-Multilith or Multigraph Operator

Last MOS Group
Signal Corps (Enlisted)

Primary Unit
1918-1919, 128, 34th Signal Company, 34th Infantry Division

Service Years
1918 - 1919

Official/Unofficial US Army Certificates

Cold War Certificate

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

Kansas

Year of Birth
1895

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Contact Info

Home Town Not Specified	Last Address Dilworth

Date of Passing Not Specified
Location of Interment Not Specified	Wall/Plot Coordinates Not Specified

Official Badges

Army Honorable Service Lapel Pin (1920-1939)

Unofficial Badges

Additional Information

Last Known Activity
Discharged from U.S. Army, Jul 26, 1919, Camp Pike, AR;

Other Comments:
Name: Jones, Rupert
Rank: Sergeant
Home of Record: Dilworth, OK
DOB: Feb 1, 1895
POB: Staffordville, KS
NOK: Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Jones, Dilworth, OK
DOE: Active Duty: Jan 18, 1918
POE: Active Duty: Ft. Leavenworth, KS
DOS: Active Duty: Jul 26, 1919
POS: Active Duty: Camp Pike, AR
Remarks: With Signal Corps, 2nd Depot Battalion; transferred to 34th Service Company (?34th Division??); thirteen months at Tours, France when armistice was signed.
Source: "Honor Roll and Service Record, Kay Co, OK, p. 61" published by Blackwell Job Printing Company, Blackwell, OK, in 1920.

World War I/Ypres-Lys Campaign
From Month/Year August / 1918	To Month/Year November / 1918
Description Ypres-Lys 19 August - 11 November 1918. That part of the Western Front extending from the English Channel south through Ypres, and thence across the Lye River to the vicinity of Arras, was manned by an army group under King Albert of Belgium composed of Belgian, British, and French armies. In late August and early September the British Second and Fifth Armies, assisted by the American II Corps (27th and 30th Divisions), wiped out the Lys salient. When the Germans began retiring in the sector south of the Lys in October to shorten their lines, King Albert's army group attacked along its entire front. By 20 October Ostend and Bruges had been captured and the Allied left was at the Dutch frontier. In mid-October Pershing dispatched two American divisions-the 37th and 91st-to the French Army of Belgium, at Foch's request, to give impetus to the drive to cross the Scheldt (Escaut) southwest of Ghent. A general attack began in this area on 31 October and continued intermittently until hostilities ended on 11 November. The 37th Division forced a crossing of the river southeast of Heurne on 2 November and another farther north at the site of the destroyed Hermelgem-Syngem bridge on 10 November. Casualties of the two divisions in these operations totaled about 2,600. From 19 August to 11 November about 108,000 Americans participated in the Ypres-Lys Campaign.