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  • Halton
  • Cheshire, England
  • Son of Sir Evan Davies Jones, Bart., and his wife, Cecilia Ann Jones, of Pentower, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. M.A., Cambridge (Trinity); two brothers, Cecil and Tom; two sisters, Mary and Olive;
  • Haileybury and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1915, and taking the degree of M.A. in January in this year
  • M.A. degree at Trinity College

Military service

  • Lieutenant
  • 10th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
  • 2nd - Sqdn. - Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
  • He was commissioned in the Royal Fusiliers on August 14th, 1914, and subsequently transferred to the R.F.C, obtaining his pilot's certificate in September, 1917;

Death

  • Counter artillery patrol; the Armstrong-Whitworth FK8 C3522 was shot up by ground machine gun fire , 1.20 p.m.; wrecked; Jones was the pilot; the observer, 2Lt Smith, was also killed in action and is buried in Lijssenthoek.
  • Killed in action
  • 25
  • XXVI - E - 9

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