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Marilyn has sent me a PM to say it is the right family as her mum was born at 1a Woodlands Road

It would have helped if Marilyn had stayed on-line as I replied within 8 mins !!!

she should be able to recognise some of the names on the
cencus you found.

Pension records above are not his ,have looked at images and that one married in 1905.

WELL DONE JANICE

so he died just 11 days after the end of the war

The Royal Defence Corps was formed in August 1917 from the Home Service Garrison Battalions of 18 Regiments. It was made up of old soldiers who were beyond the age set for combatant service, or those who were not fit for duty overseas, sometimes as the result of wounds received on active service. The Corps was similar in some ways to the Home Guard of the Second World War. Its job was to guard railways, tunnels, roads and ports, thus relieving other troops for front line service.

wonder if he died of injuries and this could be the death indexName: Walter Jones
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1874
Year of Registration: 1918
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Age at Death: 44
District: Poplar (To 1965)
County: Greater London, London, Middlesex
Volume: 1c
Page: 896

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=398581
Name: JONES, WALTER
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Defence Corps
Unit Text: 150th Coy.
Date of Death: 22/11/1918
Service No: 692
Additional information: Husband of Florence Jones, of 1a, Woodlands Rd., Wood St., Walthamstow, London.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. C. 10A.
Cemetery: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY

There are over 1000 WW1 deaths for W Jones. None are commemorated at Brookwood on CWGC site. Post-war deaths of WW wounds are commemorated but I forget what the cut-off date for this is - maybe 1920-22ish.
However, the basics of the story don't strike me as improbable. What I'm inclined to believe is he was a soldier (or reservist), and received a military burial, but it was either before or after WW1.

EDIT As Janice post below makes clear, I stuffed up on the search.

1901 possibles
Name: Walter Jones ----horsekeeper groom
Age: 25
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1876
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Florence R
Gender: Male
Where born: Islington, Middlesex, England

Civil Parish: West Ham
Ecclesiastical parish: St Paul

Name: Florence R Jones
Age: 25
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1876
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: Walter
Gender: Female
Where born: Grantham, Lincolnshire, England

Civil Parish: West Ham
Ecclesiastical parish: St Paul
County/Island: Essex
Country: England


or
Name: Walter Jones ------stoker engine
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1875
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Florence
Gender: Male
Where born: Camberwell, London, England

Civil Parish: Watford
Ecclesiastical parish: Watford St Mary
County/Island: Hertfordshire
Country: England

Name: Florence Jones
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1875
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: Walter
Gender: Female
Where born: Shoccountess, Essex, England

Civil Parish: Watford
Ecclesiastical parish: Watford St Mary
County/Island: Hertfordshire
Country: England


Household Members: Name Age
Walter Jones 26
Florence Jones 26
Walter Jones 4
Stanley Jones 2
Florence Jones 6 months

http://www.brookwoodcemetery.com/grave_search.htm

Marriages Dec 1897

JONES Walter Kensington 1a 282
STUBBLES Florence Kensington 1a 282

Births Jun 1873
Stubbles Florence Kensington 1a 42

POSSIBLE BUT WAS HE A FULL TIME SOLDIER as this is pre WW1?
British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920
about Walter Jones
Name: Walter Jones
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1874
Age at enlistment: 21
Birth Parish: Bermondsey
Birth County: Surrey
Document Year: 1895
Regimental number: 5471

My mother tells me that her grandfather Walter Jones died in the war 1918. She also tells me that he is buried at Brookwood in Surrey. Her mother told her that his coffin was covered with the Union Jack at the time of his burial. He was born around 1874 and was married to a Florence(nee. Stubbles). If anyone can find out more info for me I would be yery graetful.