Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant B. Jones, Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action in Gallipoli on 4 June 1915

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (2640 Gnr: B. Jones. 85th. Bty: R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star 2640 Cpl. B. Jones. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (2640 Sjt. B. Jones. R.A.); Memorial Plaque (Benjamin Jones) with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope, the suspension on the QSA slack and re-pinned, nearly very fine and better (5) £180-£220

Benjamin Jones was born in Stoke-on-Trent and attested for the Royal Field Artillery in Manchester. He served in South Africa during the Boer War, and with them during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War from 2 April 1915. He was killed in action in Gallipoli on 4 June 1915; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Sold with named Record Office enclosures for the three Great War awards, and original OHMS transmission envelope.