Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private L. G. Jones, Manchester Regiment, later Army Ordnance Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (8295 Pte. L. Jones. Vol: Coy. Manch: Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (019941 Pte. L. G. Jones. A.O.C.) mounted as worn, edge bruising to the Great War pair, very fine (3) £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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Luke Grafton Jones was born in 1875 at Ashton Under Lyne, Manchester. In or about 1895 he enlisted in the 3rd Volunteer Battalion the Manchester Regiment. Following the outbreak of the South African War he volunteered for and was selected for service with the 3rd Volunteer Service Company, which sailed from Liverpool for South Africa on 23 March 1901. The company joined the 2nd Battalion at Harrismith on 4 August 1901 and were mainly engaged in convoy escort, garrison duties and blockhouse defences. The 3rd V.S.C. returned to the U.K. in June 1902. He was discharged at his own request on 1 July 1902 ‘on termination of his engagement.’ During the Great War he served in the Army Ordnance Corps. He died at Ashton Under Lyne on 29 November 1944.