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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Halton
• Land Cheshire, England
• Family 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;
• Education Haileybury and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1915, and taking the degree of M.A. in January in this year
• Profession M.A. degree at Trinity College

Military service

• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 10th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Attached or transferred from 2nd - Sqdn. - Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Other data related to military career 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

• Wounded 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.
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - E - 9

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