Henry James Jones
Major Henry James Jones (1882-1926)
1926 Obituary [1]
Major HENRY JAMES JONES, O.B.E., R.A.O.C., who was born at Portsmouth in 1882, entered the Admiralty Schools in 1896 to train as a naval engineer. In the four following years he secured Admiralty prizes, and then proceeded to the Royal College of Science and the City and Guilds Central Technical College, where he further distinguished himself by winning a Whitworth Exhibition, a National Scholarship and a Royal Scholarship.
In 1903 he was appointed to the civil engineering staff of the Director of Dockyards and in the following year entered the Army as an Inspector of Ordnance Machinery. His services in charge of military workshops carried him for many years to various parts of the world, and during the latter part of the Great War he was on the staff of the Director of Ordnance Supplies at G.H.Q.
Major Jones was mentioned in despatches three times and awarded the O.B.E. for his services, From July 1920 to May 1921 he acted as technical adviser to the Inter-Allied Military Commission of Control for Austria, and at the time of his death, on the 15th June 1926, was Chief Inspector of Ordnance Machinery attached to the Eastern Command. Major Jones, who had passed the Advanced Course at the Artillery College, Woolwich, possessed a facility of thought and expression which enabled him to contribute to literature a booklet on Einstein's Theory, and to engineering a carbon-dioxide gun, a rifle grenade, and a gun sight for use against air attack, for which he received an award from the Commission of Awards to Inventors.
Major Jones became an Associate Member of this Institution in 1921.