Career
He was credited with eleven aerial victories. In 1929, he made two attempts at setting a nonstop flight record. As of 25 January 1917, Second Lieutenant Jones-Williams was seconded from the Welsh Regiment to the Royal Flying Corps.
Between 14 April and 23 September 1917, Jones-Williams drove down out of control eight German fighter planes.
His second victory came while flying a Sopwith Camel for 65 Squadron. Between 5 September and 4 October 1918, he drove down out of control three more German fighters.
Jones-Williams, while still a second lieutenant, had been brevetted a Temporary Captain when he had been raised to a flight leader"s slot on 25 May 1917. On 1 August 1919, he was granted a permanent commission as a captain.
On 1 January 1928, he was promoted from Flight Lieutenant to Squadron Leader.
Between 24 and 26 April 1929, Jones-Williams and his co-pilot Lieutenant Norman Jenkins made the first flight from the United Kingdom to British India, covering 4,130 miles (6,651 kilometers) between Royal Air Force Cranwell and Karachi in 50 hours 48 minutes in a Fairey Long-Range Monoplane, falling only 336 miles (541 kilometers) short of the world non-stop flight distance record. Jones-Williams tried to better that record later in the year, and died while attempting a nonstop flight from England to South Africa. He crashed at Djbel Literature, Zaghaouan, French Tunisia, on 17 December 1929.
He died an intestate bachelor, leaving an estate worth 202 British pounds.
