Air Chief Marshal Sir John Whitworth-Jones, GBE, KCB (28 February 1896 – 4 February 1981) was a pilot in the First World War and a senior Royal Air Force commander during the Second World War.
Born the son of Lieutenant Colonel Aylmer Jones and his wife Lilian (née Cookworthy).
He joined the territorial army in 1912 and went to France as a Bugler aged 18 with the 517th (2nd London) division of the Royal Engineers.
[2] He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on the Royal Flying Corps general list on 13 April 1917 during the First World War.
[2] He served in the Second World War as Director of Fighter Operations from 1940, Air Officer Commanding No 9 (Fighter) Group from 1942 and Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff at South East Asia Command from 1943.