A Collection of Awards to the R.F.C. and R.A.F. formed by Wing Commander Bill Traynor

A Second World War C.B.E. group of seven awarded to Air Commodore H. G. Jones, Royal Air Force

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., A.P.D.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt., R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals, 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 campaign awards with contact marks and polished, good fine, and the Victory Medal with officially re-impressed naming, otherwise good very fine (7) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the R.F.C. and R.A.F. formed by Wing Commander Bill Traynor.

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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 refers), he transferred to the newly established Royal Air Force in April 1918, was posted to H.Q. Middle East Area, Cairo and won a second “mention” ‘for valuable services rendered during the War in Egypt’ (London Gazette 3 June 1919 refers).

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. Indeed it was for his work in this latter capacity that he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 1 January 1942 refers) and awarded the C.B.E. in the Birthday Honours 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. Jones died in October 1979.