Born at 6 Cloudesdale Road, Balham, May 18th, 1896. Entered Dulwich College, September, 1908. Junior Scholarship, Dulwich College, June, 1909. Senior Scholarship, Dulwich College, June, 1912. Matriculated, with honours, London University, 1911. Appointed Prefect at Dulwich, September, 1912. Secretary and Treasurer of the College Magazine, 1913-14. Editor of _The Alleynian_, 1914-15. Head of the Modern Side, 1913-15. Member of 1st XV, 1912-13, 1913-14, 1914-15. Hon. Secretary 1st XV, 1913-14. Captain of Football, 1914-15. Won a Balliol Scholarship, December, 1914. Tied for "Victor Ludorum" Shield, March, 1915. Joined the Army, April, 1915. Killed in Action, July 31st, 1917. All that was mortal of Paul Jones is buried at a point west of Zonnebeke, north-east of Ypres. PART I MEMOIR [Illustration: Paul Jones as an Infant.] CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness. But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, Who is our home. WORDSWORTH: "INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY." Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones, born in London on May 18, 1896, was the first child of Henry and Emily Margaret Jones. His grandfather, the late Thomas Mainwaring, was in his day a leading figure in literary and political circles in Carmarthenshire. My own people have been associated with that county for centuries. For our son's christening a vessel containing water drawn from the Pool of Bethesda was sent to us by my old friend Sir John Foster Fraser, who in the spring of that year passed through Palestine on his journey by bicycle round the world. At this time I was acting editor of _The Weekly Sun_, a journal then in high repute. Later, at Mr. T. P. O'Connor's request, I took charge of his evening newspaper, _The Sun_. After the purchase of _The Sun_ by a Conservative proprietary I severed my connection with it, and in January, 1897, went to reside in Plymouth, having undertaken the managing editorship of the _Western Daily Mercury_.