Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant H. D. Jones, Royal Engineers, late Royal Marines, who was attached to the British Mission Portuguese Corps and was Mentioned in Despatches

1914-15 Star (Deal 633-S- Act. Sgt. H. D. Jones. R.M.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut. H. D. Jones.); Portugal, Republic, Military Order of Aviz, Knight’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with top slide bar, good very fine and a scarce combination (4) £600-£800

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2011.

Harold Duniam Jones was born in August 1886 and enlisted in the Royal Marines Divisional Engineers in October 1914, having previously worked as a Railway Construction Engineer in Brazil before the war. Formed into three companies, the men of R.M.D.E. were transferred en bloc to the Royal Engineers after Gallipoli, forming 247, 248 and 249 Field Companies, R.E. Commissioned a Lieutenant in October 1915, he was invalided from Gallipoli due to sickness in December 1915. Subsequently attached to the British Mission, Portuguese Corps, he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 7 April 1918) and awarded the Military Order of Aviz (London Gazette 21 August 1919).

Sold with the recipient’s original M.I.D. certificate, inscribed to ‘T./Lt. H. D. Jones, Attd. Brit. Mission Portuguese Corps’, and dated 7 April 1918, mounted for display; and copied research