Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private E. T. Jones, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, later Rifle Brigade

India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98, second and third clasps loose on separate carriage, as issued (3952 Pte. J. Jones 2nd. Bn. K. O. Sco: Bord.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3592 Pte. E. Jones. K. O. Scot: Bord:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3592 Pte. E. Jones. K. O. Scot: Bord:); British War Medal 1914-20 (456 Pte. E. T. Jones. Rif. Brig.); Victory Medal 1914-19, naming erased; scratch to obverse of KSA, very fine (5) £300-£400

Edwin Thomas Jones was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, in 1872, and attested for the King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Berwick upon Tweed on 24 January 1891. A labourer by trade, he initially served with the 1st Battalion but transferred to the 2nd Battalion upon embarking for the East Indies on 23 January 1892. His Army Service Record notes his presence at the Relief of Chitral in 1895 and service with the Tirah Expeditionary Force from 1897 to 1898, and confirms entitlement to three clasps. It further notes service in South Africa from 4 January 1900 to 15 August 1902, during which time the South African Field Force by J. B. Hayward records him as wounded in action at Waterval Drift on 15 February 1900.

Transferred to Army Reserve 2 June 1903, Jones was discharged upon termination of engagement on 1 June 1907. He later joined the 7th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, on 4 September 1914, and transferred three weeks later to the 20th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Posted to Egypt from 3 January 1916 to 20 February 1919, he was discharged and returned home to 13 Westlock Crescent, Leeds.