Arthur Montague Septimus Jones was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League. He was killed on 7 August 1915 in Ottoman Turkey during World War I.
Family The son of Railton farmers Henry Jones and Martha Jones, née Wells, he was born on 12 October 1891.Jones Arthur Montague, Tasmanian War Casualties.com.
Football He played for the Lefroy Football Club in 1912 and 1913.Football Supremacy: The State Premiership, The (Launceston) Examiner, (Monday, 23 September 1912), p. 2 and p. 3. Recruited from Lefroy,The Football Season: Fitzroy, The Age, (Thursday, 26 March 1914), p. 14; Permit for Fitzroy, The (Launceston) Examiner, (Thursday 30 April 1914), p. 2. he played in seven matches for the Fitzroy First XVIII in 1914; the first being the (round 2) match against Richmond, on 2 May 1914, when he took the place of an injured Artie Harrison.Richmond's New Stand, The Argus, (Monday, 4 May 1914), p. 6; Fitzroy (9.15) Beat Richmond (3.10), The Age, (Monday, 4 May 1914), p. 7.Football: Fitzroy v. North Hobart, The (Hobart) Mercury, (Monday, 5 October 1914), p. 3.
Military He enlisted in the First AIF on 21 October 1914,Presentations, The Fitzroy City Press, (Saturday, 26 December 1914), p. 3; Footballers in Khaki: A Small List, The Argus, (Tuesday, 2 February 1915), p. 7. and served in the 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment. He was killed in action on 7 August 1915 at Gallipoli.The Roll of Honor, The North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay Times, (Thursday, 2 September 1915), p. 3.Deaths: Jones, The (Launceston) Examiner, (Saturday 13 November 1915), p. 1.In Memoriam: On Active Service: Boyd—Jones, The Argus, (Monday 21 July 1919), p. 1.
See also List of Victorian Football League players who died on active service
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First World War Nominal Roll: Arthur Jones (828). Roll of Honour: Trooper Arthur M Jones (828), Australian War Museum. Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.