Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal G. Jones, Shropshire Light Infantry

Hong Kong Plague 1894, silver issue (Corporal G. Jones, S.L.I.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (2705 Cpl. G. Jones, 2nd Shrop: Lt. Infy.) edge bruising and contact marks, fine and better (2) £2,000-£2,400

George Jones was born at Abergavenny and attested for the Shropshire Light Infantry at Shrewsbury on 5 December 1887, aged 18 years 6 months, a labourer by trade. He was posted to Malta in September 1889, and to Egypt in March 1891, before moving to Hong Kong in December of the same year. He was present throughout the bubonic plague epidemic in Hong Kong in 1894 and received the medal for his services. He was promoted to Corporal immediately after the end of the epidemic on 31 August 1894, and posted to India in December 1894, where he was promoted to Sergeant in June 1895. He was posted Home in December 1895 and transferred to the Army Reserves on 8 December 1895. He was recalled from the Army Reserves on 19 October 1900, for service in South Africa and served there from 7 November 1899 until 6 December 1900. Posted Home, he was once again discharged on 4 December 1900. Sold with copied service papers.