Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Air Commodore H. G. Jones, C.B.E., Royal Air Force, late Army Pay Department

1914-15 Star (Lieut. H. G. Jones, A.P.D.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. H. G. Jones. R.A.F.) VM officially re-impressed; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, these privately inscribed ‘Grp. Capt. H. G. Jones, R.A.F.’; Jubilee 1935, this also privately inscribed, ‘Grp. Capt. H. G. Jones, R.A.F’, the Great War awards with contact marks and polished, therefore good fine, the later awards good very fine (6) £240-£280

Provenance: Wing Commander Bill Traynor Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2007

C.B.E. London Gazette 11 June 1942.

Herbert George Jones, who was born in November 1884, was commissioned into the Army Pay Department in 1914. Subsequently Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 12 January 1918), he transferred to the newly established Royal Air Force in April 1918, was posted to H.Q. Middle East Area, Cairo, and was again Mentioned in Despatches ‘for valuable services rendered during the War in Egypt’ (London Gazette 3 June 1919).

Between the Wars, Jones held a succession of appointments as a Command Accountant, including stints of service in Iraq in the late 1920s and mid-1930s, and by the renewal of hostilities he was serving as Command Accountant at H.Q., Coastal Command, in the rank of Group Captain. For his services during the Second World War in this latter capacity he was again Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 1 January 1942) and created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours’ List of 1942. He transferred to H.Q. Technical Training Command later that year, and was placed on the Retired List as an Air Commodore in November 1944. He died in October 1979.