Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1900, no clasp (Lieut. B. H. Jones, R.I.M.S. Canning) good very fine and rare £350-400

Ex Douglas Morris Collection, October 1996.

Only 12 European recipients of medals to this ship.

Benjamin Henry Jones joined the Royal Indian Marine in December 1891; Lieutenant, 27 November 1896; Commander, 13 October 1907; Captain, 1 January 1918; Retired 1920. Captain Jones was awarded the C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.