About Walter Dally-Jones
Lived 1855 – 1926 (aged 71). Walter Dally-Jones was a soldier.
Walter Dally Jones (21 May 1855, Wandsworth – 20 September 1926) was a British soldier. He was assistant secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence from 1914 to 1919.
Dally Jones was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge before he joined the British Army in 1878. He served in the 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot with postings in Natal, Bermuda and the East Indies. He was Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General for Gibraltar in 1891 to 1898 and then took on the role of press censor for General Redvers Buller during the Boer War.
When David Lloyd George established the War Cabinet in December 1916, Dally Jones assisted Maurice Hankey, the secretary, in recording the decisions.
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British soldier (1855-1926)
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Walter Dally-Jones died on 20 September 1926.
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Walter Dally-Jones was a soldier.
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