Career
Jones joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1911 and saw action in various ships during the First World War. He became Senior Naval Officer Halifax in 1929, Commanding Officer of the destroyer HMCS Skeena in 1932 and Senior Naval Officer Esquimalt in 1934. He went on to be Director of Naval Operations and Training in 1936 and as Captain (Doctorate) Canadian Flotilla in 1938.
He served in the Second World War as Commodore Commanding the Halifax Force from 1940, as Commanding Officer Atlantic Coast from later that year and as Chief of the Naval Staff from 1944 until dying in office in 1946.
