Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel E. G. Jones, Pembroke (Castlemartin) Yeomanry, seconded to the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (8195 Pte. E. G. Jones, 31st Coy. 9th Impl. Yeo); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. E. G. Jones); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt. E. G. Jones, Pembroke Yeo.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919, generally very fine or better (5) £380-420

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Edmund George Jones was born at Rayton, Salop and enlisted in the Montgomeryshire Imperial Yeomanry in February 1900, aged 21 years. He subsequently witnessed active service in South Africa and was commissioned in the temporary rank of Lieutenant in the 34th Battalion, I.Y., in February 1902 (Queen’s Medal & 4 clasps).

In April 1908, he was appointed a Lieutenant in the Pembroke (Castlemartin) Yeomanry (Territorial Force), in which unit he was advanced to Captain in April 1912. During the Great War he was advanced to Major in June 1916, following which he was seconded for duty with the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Later still, in August 1918, he was given the acting rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on taking command of a battalion of the M.G.C. He was permitted to retain this rank on relinquishing his commission in April 1921, his earlier award of the T.D. having been announced in The London Gazette on 19 August 1919; sold with copied research.