More about George William Jones

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour, but is remembered on Dundee’s Morgan Academy Roll of Honour.

As a student at Edinburgh University Captain Jones had a very distinguished career, graduating with distinction in the Faculties of Arts, Science and Law. In May 1917 he was appointed a Sub-Lieutenant in the RNVR, and in August 1918 he joined the Meteorolical Staff of the RAF, for whom he was carrying on important investigations when he died from pneumonia.

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George W Jones MA, BSc, LL.B, FRSE, FRAS was the son of Mr John Jones and Mrs Isabella Jones of Sunbrae, Bingham Terrace, Dundee. He was married to Mrs Jean Murray Gilchrist Jones of “Coraldene,” Kirkbrae, Liberton. In May 1917 he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Sub Lieutenant to serve as a Meteorological Officer and was appointed to HMS President in London. In October he was promoted to Lieutenant. After the Royal Air Force was created he was transferred to it in August 1918 and appointed as Staff Captain in the Air Ministry. George Jones was admitted to hospital in Hampstead on 2nd November 1918 with pneumonia and died two days later. He is buried in the Edinburgh (Liberton) Cemetery and he is commemorated in the Edinburgh University Roll of Honour.

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