[2] After contracting typhoid in his youth, the younger Jones decided on a career in medicine and set his heart on orthopaedic surgery after he underwent an operation to remove a hemangioma.
[2] Jones was appointed a surgeon at the Oswestry Orthopaedic Hospital at Gobowen and took up an honorary position at North Wales Sanatorium.
His contributions earned him recognition and he began teaching a popular course on fractions at Liverpool University in 1936, which prompted him to work on a textbook;[1][3] Fractures and Joint Injuries, which appeared in 1940, was reprinted and translated many times and called a "masterpiece".
Three years later, he was instrumental in establishing the British volume of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (BJBJS) and became its editor (serving until his death).
[3] He spoke out against the establishment of the National Health Service, writing in 1948 that private practice was an essential component of medical progress.
[2] Another study of his life states that, along with his mentor Robert Jones, he "laid the foundation for a strong history of British orthopaedics".