Decorations Victoria Cross; 1914-15 Star; Victory & British War medals School Eastmans RN Academy Wounded died 31 May 1916 Enlistment 15/01/1894 Next of kin address Hampshire England Margaret Annie (Daisy) Jones (nee Dampney) (dob: 1878, Somerset) (married 13/10/1910 at Holy Trinity Church, Exmouth) 30 Sussex Road (parents on notification of his death) Petersfield Aunt: Catherine Jane Jones Lewis John Fillis Jones, Charles Gray Jones, Jeremy Peyton Jones England Winnifred L Jones, Violet C Jones Ramsey Charles G P Jones, Edmund F Jones Linnette Sheffield (nee Jones) Essex HMS Gurkha England Mother Gertrude (nee Gray) (c1854 - 1937) Father Admiral Loftus Francis Jones (19/07/1836 - 22/06/1912) More info Enrolled on 15/01/1894. HMS Shark in command 09/10/14. Census information - 1881 living with his great aunt Mary Osborn (widow) at Downend, Fareham, Hampshire; 1891 - living with his mother at Broadwater, Brighton Road, East Preston, Sussex; 1901 - Sub. Lt. on HMS Spiteful which was at Birkenhead; 1911 - Lt HMS Ghurka in command. He married Margaret Annie Dampney at Holy Trinity Exmouth on 13/10/1910. Lt - 01/04/1912, Lt Cmdr - 01/04/1910, Cmdr - 30/06/1914. “On the afternoon of May 31, 1916, during the battle of Jutland, Commander Jones, in HMS Shark torpedo boat destroyer, led a division of destroyers to attack the enemy battle cruiser squadron. In the course of this attack a shell hit the Shark bridge, putting the steering gear out of order, and very shortly afterwards another shell disabled the main engines, leaving the vessel helpless. “The commanding officer of another destroyer, seeing the Shark’s plight, came between her and the enemy and offered assistance, but was warned by Commander Jones not to run the risk of being almost certainly sunk in trying to help him. “Commander Jones, though wounded in the leg, went aft to help connect and man the after wheel. Meanwhile, the forecastle gun with its crew had been blown away, and the same fate soon afterward befell the after gun and crew. Commander Jones then went to the midship and only remaining gun, and personally assisted in keeping it in action. All this time the Shark was subjected to very heavy fire from enemy light cruisers and destroyers at short range. “The gun’s crew of the midship gun was reduced to three, of which an able seaman was soon badly wounded in the leg. A few minutes later Commander Jones was hit by a shell, which took off his leg above the knee, but he continued to give orders to his gun’s crew, while a chief stoker improvised a tourniquet round his thigh. “Noticing that the ensign was not properly hoisted, he gave orders for another to be hoisted. Soon afterward, seeing that the ship could not survive much longer, and as a German destroyer was closing, he gave orders for the surviving members of the crew to put on lifebelts. Almost immediately after this order had been given, the Shark was struck by a torpedo and sank. Commander Jones was unfortunately not among the few survivors from the Shark who were picked up by a neutral vessel in the night.”