WILLIAMS Jesse Charles

Medal Index Roll: Private 4/Ox & Bucks Light Infantry Service No 24056, 1/4 Ox & Bucks Light Infantry Service No 20214, 2/4 Ox & Bucks Light Infantry Service No 203675 Awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

United Parish Magazine, Holt:
November 1918
Our sympathy goes out to Mrs Williams now that Jesse Williams is declared missing – though we hope he may be alive as a prisoner. Also William Charles Gurney was killed in action on September 28th, fighting among the Canadians at Cambrai – a sore grief to his parents and relations. This makes three Holt families which have lost two sons each.

United Parish Magazine, Holt:
December 1918
The Military Medal has been given to W. Williams for gallant conduct on September 5th; and his mother has had the pleasure of seeing the letter of congratulation from Sir A. Hunter-Weston in command of Army Corps VIII. Unhappily his brother Jessie Williams is reported killed, and another of our men, James Jones, of the Row has died from influenza. Two active, vigorous young men, alas gone. We shall hope to place Tablet on the Church walls with the names of these and others, who have fallen in the War.

A photograph of Private J. Williams, Oxford and Bucks, can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 11th November 1916, available at Worcestershire Archives.