Background
The son of a clergyman, he was born on 7 April 1905 and began his officer training at Sandhurst in 1923.
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Robert Jones
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Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Career
He was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington"s Regiment in 1925, served as Adjutant of the 6th Nigerian Regiment in 1932-1934 and joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1936. He died, in Ferndown in Dorset, on 27 October 1985. citation Notice of their joint award appeared in the London Gazette on Christmas Eve, 1940. On various dates, Captain Jephson-Jones and Lieutenant Eastman, worked under dangerous and trying conditions and performed acts of considerable gallantry in dealing with a large number of variously unexploded bombs, some of which were in a very highly dangerous state and of the German delayed action type.
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United Kingdom