title: Arthur Jones (footballer, born 1891)
text: # Arthur Jones (footballer, born 1891)
  
  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.
  
  ## Football
  
  He played for the Lefroy Football Club in 1912 and 1913. Recruited from Lefroy, 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.
  
  ## Military
  
  He enlisted in the First AIF on 21 October 1914, and served in the 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment. He was killed in action on 7 August 1915 at Gallipoli.
  
  