Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private H. C. Jones, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (285029 Pte. H. C. Jones. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence Medal, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. Henry Charles Jones, The Gardens, Chequers, Butlers Cross, Bucks’; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Herbert [sic] C. Jones) the Defence Medal in named card box of issue, some contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (4) £70-£90

Henry Charles Jones attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 3 April 1915 and served with the 2/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was discharged as a consequence of wounds on 31 May 1918 and was awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 397981. Given the address on the card box of issue for his Defence Medal he was presumably employed during the Second World War as a gardener at the Prime Minister’s official country residence Chequers.