Jones spent time in India as a child, where his brothers nicknamed him "Doolally Tap" (meaning "slightly mad").
[2] After grammar school, he studied medicine at Liverpool University, where he met his future wife.
[1] After Italy declared war on the United Kingdom and France on 10 June 1940, Jones took charge of a flight armed with modern Hurricane fighters.
He was in action within days, engaging a formation of more modern Fiat CR.42 fighters, also biplanes, of the Italian Regia Aeronautica to the north of Ioannina.
He shot down one on 27 November, then two more the next day over Delvinakion, but was injured in the dogfight and spent a month recovering from a bullet wound in his neck.
[1] Jones shot down two further Fiats on 28 February 1941, and was awarded an immediate Distinguished Flying Cross.
It had been re-equipped with modern Hurricane fighters shortly before Germany invaded Greece on 6 April 1941.
Finally, it moved to RAF Aqir in Palestine to regroup, where it fought against the Vichy French in Syria.
[2] He spent a year with the Rhodesian Air Training Group, then took command of the RAF Hawkinge in Kent.
83 Group,[3] transferred to France shortly after D-Day, and moved eastwards with the front line.
[3] He was promoted to acting air commodore in January 1959,[3] and took command of the Central Reconnaissance Establishment.
[3] He was advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1967,[3] and retired from the RAF in August 1969.