Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An impressive R.V.M. group of twelve awarded to Gethyn Jones, a long-served Stove and Flute Attendant at Buckingham Palace

Royal Victorian Medal, E.II.R., silver, privately engraved, ‘Gethyn Jones’, with small correction to surname; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, E.II.R., the suspension bar officially dated ‘1937-1957’ and with ‘Thirty Years’ Bar (Gethyn Jones); Luxembourg (Grand Duchy), Medal of the Civil and Military Order of Adolph of Nassau, bronze; Malaysia (Federation), Medal of the Order of the Defender of the Realm, silver; Greece (Kingdom), Medal of the Order of George I, bronze; Persia (Empire), Medal of the Order of the Lion and Sun, silver, mounted court-style as worn, generally good very fine (12) £500-600

R.V.M. London Gazette 1 January 1968.

Gethyn Jones was born at Hafod, Glamorgan in 1907 and entered Royal service at Buckingham Palace in 1937. Apart from wartime service in the Gloucestershire Regiment (1942-45), including Burma, he remained employed as a Stove and Flute Attendant at the Palace for the remainder of his career.