Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel M. H. Jones, South Wales Borders, later Army Cadet Force

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Capt. M. H. Jones.) mounted as worn, edge bruising to last, generally good very fine (4) £80-£120

Mansell Howard Jones was born in Swansea on 27 June 1914 and was educated at Swansea University. He served during the Second World War initially in the ranks of the South Wales Borderers, before being commissioned Second Lieutenant on 10 March 1945. Transferring to the Army Education Corps following the cessation of hostilities, he later served in the Cadet Forces, with the Combined Cadet Force at Prices School, Fareham, and was awarded his Cadet Forces Medal in 1958 (London Gazette 28 November 1958). He relinquished his commission on 31 July 1974, and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He died in Hereford in August 1996.

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