Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of six miniature dress medals attributed to Captain J. H. Morris-Jones, Royal Army Medical Corps, later the Liberal M.P. for Denbigh and Knighted

Military Cross, G.V.R., 1914-15 Star; War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, extremely fine (6) £50-70

M.C. London Gazette 6 April 1918. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He carried on his duties at his aid post during an enemy attack under very heavy fire. He also visited wounded men who were lying out in the heaviest of the fire, and went up to the front line to attend to the wounded. He showed total disregard of his own safety, and encouraged all by his cheerful and courageous demeanour’.

John Henry Morris-Jones was born in Waunfawr, Caernarfonshire on 2 November 1884 and was educated at Menai Bridge Grammar School and St. Mungo’s College, Glasgow, qualifying as a doctor in 1906. He practised as a General Practitioner in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire for some 20 years and took an active part in the public life of the town and county, becoming Chairman of the Colwyn Bay Urban District Council and a member of the Denbighshire County Council. During the Great War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. attached to the 2nd Worcestershire Regiment in France and was awarded the M.C. He was elected as the Liberal M.P. for Denbigh in 1929, a seat he was to hold until he retired in 1950. He was Assistant Government Whip, 1932-35 and a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1935-37. Knighted in 1937, he chaired the Welsh Parliamentary Party 1941-42 and served as a Parliamentary Delegate to Buchenwald Concentration Camp in April 1945. The author of Doctor in the Whip’s Room, 1955, he died on 9 July 1972. Sold with copied research.