Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Signalman W. D. Jones, Royal Corps of Signals, who was taken Prisoner-of-War at the fall of Singapore, 15 February 1942, and died in captivity on 10 October 1943

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. W. Jones, 5 Garden Avenue, Mitcham, Surrey’, extremely fine (4) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Second World War Casualties.

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William Douglas Jones was born on 23 March 1914 and served with the Royal Corps of Signals in the Singapore Fortress during the Second World War. He was taken Prisoner of War at the fall of Singapore, 15 February 1942, and was held at No. 4 Construction Camp on the Burma-Siam Railway. He died on 10 October 1943, and is buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand.