Herbert Jones also played a total of 21 matches for the New South Wales Rugby representative side between 1911 and 1914.
Herbert Jones enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on 26 July 1915 at the age of 26 years and 11 months.
He was posted to the 30th Battalion of the newly formed 5th Division and embarked on the troopship Beltana on 9 November 1915.
He is buried in the AIF Burial Ground at Flers, plot IX row B Grave 4.
During the 1980s, one of his surviving sisters donated Herbert's Australian and New South Wales touring caps to the Newcastle Regional Museum.