Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Salonika’ M.M. group of four awarded to Gunner A. Jones, Royal Garrison Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (296442 Gnr: A. Jones. 153/Hy: By: R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (7395 Gnr. A. Jones. R.A.); France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, Ministry of the Interior, bronze, unnamed, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 14 January 1918

French Medal of Honour, bronze London Gazette 21 July 1919

Arthur Jones attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery on 16 November 1915 and served with the 153rd Heavy Brigade during the Great War in Salonika from July 1916. Appointed Bombardier in August 1916, he reverted to Gunner at his own request in February 1917, and was awarded the Military Medal, the awarded being recorded in the Battery War Diary of October 1917. He was discharged on 27 February 1919.