John Cynon Jones AM

b. 01/1885 Mynydd Islwyn, Monmouthshire.   d. 04/1965 Weston super Mare, Somerset.

DATE OF AM ACTION: 13/05/1913 Blackwood, Wales.

John C Jones AM

John Cynon Jones was born near Pontypool, Wales in 1885. He became a collier and was working at the Blackwood Pit at the time of his AM action. He was married with a daughter. He served during WWI with 2/1 Glamorgan Yeomanry, going to France on 31st May 1916. He was invalided home in September 1918.

 

AM CITATION:

As a passenger train, travelling about seven miles- an hour, was entering Pontypool Road Railway Station, on the 13th May, 1913, a boy of fifteen fell from the platform on to the rails, when the train was only twenty yards away. Jones, who was waiting on the platform, at once jumped down, and, as there was not time to lift the boy on to the platform, lay down between the rails and the platform and held the boy on his breast until the train had passed. Neither was injured, but it is evident that the boy owes his life to the courage and presence of mind displayed by Jones.

 

BURIAL LOCATION: UNKNOWN.

LOCATION OF MEDAL: PRIVATELY HELD.

Acknowledgement:

Allan Stanistreet – Images of John Cynon Jones AM and his Albert Medal.