She was one of only two women in Normandy during the first few days of the D-Day campaign, and attended patients at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
Jones was educated at Cardigan Grammar School, and on leaving, went to London to train as a nurse at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
[11] When Bower and Molly Giles, arrived at the Juno Beachhead on 12 June 1944, the beachmaster exclaimed "Good God!
50 MFH moved onto Bayeux, where Bower and Giles, were persuaded to put on their best uniforms and pose for some propaganda imagery.
[15] On pushing further into the European theatre of war, Bower said she was "stunned, and felt inadequate" when they arrived at the camp at Bergen-Belsen.
She helped evacuate many of the prisoners to hospitals in Belgium, which used flights of Dakota aircraft from an airfield some 4 miles (6.4 km) away from the camp.
50 MFH as it went out across Europe ending in Germany at Celle, Fassberg and finally Schleswig on the Baltic coast, where the unit disbanded and Bower was posted out to RAF Hospital Cosford.
[17] Both Bowers and Giles were awarded the MBE in the 1945 New Years Honours list, for their work in Normandy, and for caring for those they encountered at the Bergen-Belsen camp.
[18][7][19] In April 1942, Jones married Donald Gordon Ogilvie, an aircrew Royal Air Officer, who had joined the RAF in 1937, and who had served with No.