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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1271

A Fine Campaign Group of Five to Petty Officer 1st Class H. Jones, Royal Navy, Who Died of Wounds Received Whilst Serving in the Battleship H.M.S. Malaya at the Battle of Jutland, 31.5.1916 Egypt 1882-89, dated, no clasp (H. Jones. Boy. 1. Cl. H.M.S. Minotaur); India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Burma 1885-7 (H. Jones, A.B. H.M.S. Turquoise.), edge bruise; Africa General Service 1902-56, E.VII.R., one clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (H. Jones, P.O. 1 Cl. H.M.S. Fox); Naval Long Service & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Henry Jones, P.O. 1st Cl., H.M.S. Malabar), partly officially corrected, light pitting; Khedive´s Star 1882, generally good very fine (5) Estimate £ 550-650 117215 Petty Officer Henry Jones Henry Jones, born Salford, Lancashire, 1865; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1881; Ordinary Seaman 1883; advanced Petty Officer 1st Class 1891; joined Royal Fleet Reserve, 5.9.1903; re-engaged aged 50 for service in the Great War and was posted to H.M.S. Malaya (Battleship), 28.1.1916, in which he served at the Battle of Jutland (31.5.1916), ´The Warspite was no less fortunate, and as the Malaya, the rear ship, turned it was evident that she was the target of a whole division or more. Salvoes were falling all round her at the rate of six a minute. By hauling out to port, however, she escaped, but for the next twenty minutes she was constantly straddled, and was twice so badly hit below the water line that she began to list. It was then decided to open fire short with the 6-inch starboard battery in order to set up a screen, but before the order was passed another heavy shell burst inside it, devastating guns and crew and starting a fire amidst the havoc it had wrought.´ (Naval Operations, Sir Julian S. Corbett, refers); Jones died of severe burns received during the battle, 11.6.1916, and is buried in Portsmouth (Kingston) Cemetery.

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