1st Lt. Rolfe Davis Jones 0-1324266 KIA US Army

1st Lt. Rolfe Davis Jones O-1324266 KIA US Army. He was the, son of Major David Jones and Grace Rolfe Jones of 235 Elizabeth Rd., San Antonio, he was also the brother of Edwin Brooke Jones. He was born May 14, 1922, at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C. He took part in ROTC at North Texas Agricultural College AKA University of Texas at Arlington. He volunteered for the US Army on March 27, 1942; and trained at Ellington Field, and later transferred to O.C.S. at Ft. Benning, where he was commissioned in September 1943. He went to Europe the same month. He served in Company C, 414th Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division. He first went into action in Holland attached to the first Canadian Army. He also participated in the battle of the Dikes, and from Aachen to the Roer River from November 9 to December 11, 1944, at the age of 22. On the day of his death he was serving in Company B, 414th Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division. On December 10, 1944 he was killed in action near Pier, Germany. The citation with the Silver Star awarded posthumously states that Lt. Jones led his men through a mine field across 700 yards of open terrain that was exposed to all the fire power the enemy could put there. When his platoon was temporarily halted by Machine gun fire and thank fire he called for artillery fire and led the assault on the objective. Machine gun fire mortally wounded him, when his platoon was only a short distances from its objective, but his courage and daring intrepidity inspired his men to push on and secure the goal. He was Awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, The Silver Star Medal, the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart Medal, The American Theater of operations, the European Theater of Operations Medal ETO, and the World War Two Victory Medal.

The Fighting Men of Texas

U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949

104th Infantry Division, General Orders No. 80

1940 United States Federal Census

1930 United States Federal Census