John Rymer-Jones

Brigadier John Murray Rymer-Jones CBE, MC & Bar, QPM (12 July 1897 – 17 December 1993) was a British Army and police officer.

Rymer-Jones was born in Blackheath, London,[1] and educated at Felsted School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

From 1927 to 1928 he served as a staff officer with the Shanghai Defence Force and his last years in the Army, from 1929 to 1933, were spent as a company commander at the Royal Military Academy.

[9] In August 1936, he was transferred to the Organisation Department of the Commissioner's Office at Scotland Yard[10] and in October 1936 was promoted chief constable.

[18] Rymer-Jones was also North Kent area commissioner of St John Ambulance from 1963 to 1966, secretary of the Drinking Fountain Association from 1959 to 1976, and on the committee of the Royal Humane Society from 1957 to 1977.