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VC1349    Herbert ‘H’ Jones

Name   Herbert ‘H’ Jones    No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1349   Awards   VC    

Regiment   Parachute Regiment commanding 2nd Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant-Colonel

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant-Colonel

Place Of Birth   private nursing home, 7 Gwendolen Avenue, Putney, London, England

Place Of Death   Darwin Ridge, East Falklands

Buried/Location Ashes    Blue Beach War Cemetery, Port San Carlos (originally buried on 30 May 1982 where he fell at Ajax Bay, marked by a memorial cairn)

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   25 October 1982

Headstone    Headstone    Plot/Grave no.  

Gazetted    19 September 1969

VC Presented   4 November 1982 by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his widow, Sara & two sons, David and Rupert

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BORN    14 May 1940

DIED   28 May 1982   AGE    42

VC Won  24 May 1969  AGE   42

Place VC Won   Darwin Hill, East Falklands

War/Campaign   Falkland War

Falklands War

Memorials

P  Headstone, Blue Beach War Cemetery, Port San Carlos (originally buried on 30 May 1982 where he fell at Ajax Bay, marked by a memorial cairn)

P  Named on National Memorial of Remembrance, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

P  Named on Parachute Regiment Memorial, Military Cemetery, Aldershot, Hampshire

Falklands War Memorial, Alexandria Park, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales

P  Named on Liberation Memorial, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands

P  Named on Goose Green, Memorial Cain, Falkland Islands

P  Memorial Cairn were he fell, Darwin Hill, Falkland Islands

Named on South Atlantic Task Force Memorial, St Paul's Cathedral, London

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire

P  Memorial Plaque, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire

P  Named on 2 Honours Boards, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Surrey

P  Commanding Officers Memorial, Memorial Chapel,Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Surrey

Memorial Wall, Falklands Islands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne College, Berkshire

P  Named on VC & GC Memorial, Memorial Gardens, Wandsworth Town Hall, South London

P  Wooden Memorial Plaque & Citation, St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Kingswear, Devon

P  Blue Plaque, Slipway, Kingswear, Devon

P  Memorial Plaque, Signed Path, Warren Woods, Kingswear, Devon

Named on War Memorial, St Peters Prep School, Seaford, Now at Seaford Museum, East Sussex

P  Named on VC Display, Royal British Legion, Salisbury, Wiltshire

P  'The Colonel H' Pub, Great Yarmouth, Suffolk

P  H Jones Crescent, Aldershot, Hampshire

P  H Jones Road, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands

P  Tree & Plaque, Memorial Wood, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands


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