Distinguished Service Order, gallantry award
Accession Number

NAM.1980-01-26-1

Description

Distinguished Service Order with bar awarded to Lt Col Bryan John Jones, Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), 1918. Associated with World War One (1914-1918). Jones served as a temporary lieutenant-colonel commanding the 19th (Service) Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers from 1915 to 1917 although remaining a Major in 1st Bn Leinster Regiment until he was killed in Belgium on 20/10/1918 aged 44 during the taking of Harlebeke village on the night of 19-20 October by 9th (Scottish) Division. The CWGC records him as buried at reference VII. A. 1. in Harlebeke New British Cemetery in Belgium and as attached 15th Bn Royal Irish Rifles at the time of his death.

Campaigns

World War One (1914-1918)