Lot Essay
M.C. London Gazette 15.2.1919 'For conspicious gallantry and devotion to duty on 8.10.1918 in the attack at Bel Aise. His Company was subjected to very severe machine-gun fire, and difficulty was experienced in getting through the wire. He personally found the gaps in the wire and led the Company through, he himself killing several machine-gunners. It was mainly due to his fine courage and leadership that the Company reached its final objective'.
Bar to M.C. London Gazette 10.12.1919 'For great gallantry and devotion to duty. On 4.11.1918 in the attack on Louvignies he led his Company to the objective, although just before reaching it he was badly wounded. He refused to go down until he saw the work of consolidation had been got well in hand. Throughout the attack he inspired all under him by his coolness and ability'.
Lieutenant Reginald Alick Jones, M.C., enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers in August 1914, aged 21 years and first entered the French Theatre of War in July 1915 with the 10th Battalion. Returning home in April 1916 for treatment to a knee joint damaged while jumping a trench, he returned to France with the 7th Battalion in January 1917. Quickly transferring to his old Battalion, the 10th, Jones was advanced to Sergeant in April. According to his Military History Sheet he was wounded on 2.8.1917 (P.R.O. WO374 38418 refers), but presumably not seriously since he attended an Officer Cadet Board back in England that October. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in his old Battalion, he returned to France in September 1918 and went on to win a brace of M.Cs for the deeds outlined above. Sustaining a gunshot wound to a knee at Louvignies on 4.11.1918, the day on which he won his second M.C., Jones was evacuated via No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station to England later that month. Confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant on 1.11.1919, he relinquished his Commission in September 1921.
Bar to M.C. London Gazette 10.12.1919 'For great gallantry and devotion to duty. On 4.11.1918 in the attack on Louvignies he led his Company to the objective, although just before reaching it he was badly wounded. He refused to go down until he saw the work of consolidation had been got well in hand. Throughout the attack he inspired all under him by his coolness and ability'.
Lieutenant Reginald Alick Jones, M.C., enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers in August 1914, aged 21 years and first entered the French Theatre of War in July 1915 with the 10th Battalion. Returning home in April 1916 for treatment to a knee joint damaged while jumping a trench, he returned to France with the 7th Battalion in January 1917. Quickly transferring to his old Battalion, the 10th, Jones was advanced to Sergeant in April. According to his Military History Sheet he was wounded on 2.8.1917 (P.R.O. WO374 38418 refers), but presumably not seriously since he attended an Officer Cadet Board back in England that October. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in his old Battalion, he returned to France in September 1918 and went on to win a brace of M.Cs for the deeds outlined above. Sustaining a gunshot wound to a knee at Louvignies on 4.11.1918, the day on which he won his second M.C., Jones was evacuated via No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station to England later that month. Confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant on 1.11.1919, he relinquished his Commission in September 1921.