Tuesday 5th June 1917
The adjutant
of 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, informed me of a raid the Battalion
undertook from 1.30 this morning on enemy positions at Observatory Ridge near
Ypres marked on the map above. The object was to secure identification of the
enemy units.
Second Lieutenant K C J Jones [X550/1/82]
The raid was
undertaken by Second Lieutenant K C J Jones and twenty-four other ranks. The
adjutant remarked: “The raid was quite successful, the party leaving our
Trenches at 1.30 a.m. and returning at 1.37 a.m. with one prisoner, an N.C.O.
of No.5 Company, 2nd Battalion, 58th Infantry Regiment, of 119th Division. His
name was Neumann”. In the operation four men were wounded, only one of them
seriously. As a reward Second Lieutenant Jones and two of his men, 33034
Corporal C Jeeves and 202669 Private H Medcraft were awarded ten days’ leave in
England. In addition Jones is to receive the Military Cross, Jeeves and 9214
Acting Lance Corporal H Preston the Military Medal(1).
Source: X550/3/WD
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