Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Petty Officer E. A. Jones, Royal Navy, who served as a submariner 1916-22

1914-15 Star (J. 2824 E. A. Jones, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J. 2824 E. A. Jones, L.S., R.N.), mounted as worn with space for a further award at the front of the wearing bar, generally very fine (3) £40-60

Evan Ashley Jones was born in Cumberland in September 1892 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in September 1908. Advanced to Able Seaman in April 1912, he was serving aboard the battle cruiser H.M.S. Queen Mary on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, in which month he was present in the action fought in Heligoland Bight, and he remained similarly employed until removing to the submarine branch in April 1916. His subsequent wartime appointments comprised Dolphin, Maidstone, Lucia and Titania, latterly in H.M. Submarine G. 4, and he was pensioned ashore from the L. 52 as a Petty Officer in June 1922.