Edward Jones (General)

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Sir Charles Edward Webb Jones , KCB , CVO , CBE (born September 25, 1936 in Altrincham , Cheshire , England ; † May 14, 2007 in Inverness-shire , Scotland ) was a British officer in the British Army , who last served as a general between 1988 and in 1991 Quartermaster-General to the Forces and from 1992 to 1995 military representative in the NATO military committee . He then held the post of Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod between 1995 and 2001 .

Life

Training and uses as an officer

Charles Edward Webb Jones, son of General Charles Phibbs Jones and his wife Ouida Margaret Wallace, began studying at Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge after attending the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen , which was founded in 1618, but dropped out after ten days to begin officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS). Once finished, he was on 27 July 1956 as a lieutenant (Second Lieutenant) in the Light Infantry Regiment Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry adopted. In the following years he found various uses in the 1st Green Jackets infantry regiment (43rd and 52nd) and was used in the Cyprus conflict and during the so-called "Malayan Emergency" in the Malaya Federation . In 1966 he joined as an officer for Infantry Regiment Royal Green Jackets and was identified as Lieutenant Colonel (Lieutenant Colonel) and commander ( Commanding Officer ) of its in County Armagh 1st Battalion deployed during the Northern Ireland conflict mentioned in the period from 1 May to 31 July 1972 in the war report ( Mentioned in dispatches ) . In 1976, he came as a member of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus UNFICYP ( United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus ) used and was in the late 1970s in the Ministry of Defense in the Unit for Northern Ireland at the time of death of the conservative politician Airey Neave operates by a car bomb the Irish National Liberation Army was killed while driving out of the parking garage of the Palace of Westminster .

After Jones 1980, the Royal College of Defense Studies had graduated (RCDS), Jones was in January 1981 Brigadier General (Brigadier) promoted and to the commander of British Army of the Rhine BAOR (British Army of the Rhine) belonging to the San Sebastian Barracks in Soest stationed 6. armored Brigade (6th armored Brigade) , where he remained until January 1983rd He then acted between July 1983 and January 1985 as the commander of the military advisory and training team in Zimbabwe , which had gained independence from the United Kingdom on April 18, 1980. For his services there he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on June 15, 1985 .

After his return from Zimbabwe acted Major General (Major-General) Edward Jones between February 1985 and February 1987 as Director General of the Territorial Army (Director-General, Territorial Army) . On October 1, 1986, he also took over the honorary post of Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Educational Corps from General Richard Trant . Subsequently, he was back to Germany added, as a successor to Major General David J. Ramsbotham from March 1987 until its replacement by Major General Michael Wilkes in June 1988 as Commanding General ( General Officer Commanding ) of the 3rd Armored Division ( 3rd Armored Division ) .

Rise to General and Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod

In July 1988, Jones returned as a lieutenant general (Lieutenant-General) to the Defense Ministry, where he by General Charles Huxtable the post of Quartermaster General of the Army (Quartermaster-General to the Forces) took over. He exercised this use until December 1991, after which General John Learmont was his successor there. As the successor to General James Glover , he also took over the honorary post on July 1, 1988 as Colonel Commandant of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets . During this time he was beaten on December 31, 1988 to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir".

Most recently, General Jones replaced Admiral Richard Thomas as military representative on the NATO Military Committee in January 1992 and held this position until he retired in January 1995, whereupon Air Chief Marshal John Cheshire was his successor. On May 9, 1995, he succeeded Admiral Richard Thomas again, this time in the office of Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod . In this capacity, he was up to his replacement by Lieutenant General Michael Willcocks on May 8, 2001, representatives of Queen Elizabeth II. In the upper house ( House of Lords ) . After finishing his post as Black Rod , he was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) on May 9, 2001 . He also served as a commissioner for the Royal Hospital Chelsea .

His 1965 marriage to Suzanne Leschallas resulted in the sons Hume Richard Webb Jones, who serves as a major in the Royal Green Jackets , Benjamin Edward Webb Jones and the daughter Jemma Suzanne.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 40882, HMSO, London, September 18, 1956, p. 5347 ( PDF , accessed January 13, 2019, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 45909, HMSO, London, February 19, 1973, p. 2341 ( PDF , accessed January 14, 2019, English).
  3. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860 , p. 253
  4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 45909, HMSO, London, February 19, 1973, p. 2341 ( PDF , accessed January 14, 2019, English).
  5. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860 , p. 182
  6. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 50154, HMSO, London, June 15, 1985, p. 5 ( PDF , accessed January 14, 2019, English).
  7. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860 , p. 20
  8. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 50683, HMSO, London, October 13, 1986, p. 13258 ( PDF , accessed January 14, 2019, English).
  9. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860 , p. 202
  10. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860 , p. 10
  11. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 51420, HMSO, London, July 25, 1988, p. 8449 ( PDF , accessed January 14, 2019, English).
  12. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES (leighrayment.com)
  13. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 51578, HMSO, London, December 30, 1988, p. 2 ( PDF , accessed January 14, 2019, English).
  14. ↑ MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AND TRI-SERVICE SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 35
  15. ↑ London Gazette . No. 54031, HMSO, London, May 9, 1995, p. 6661 ( PDF , accessed January 14, 2019, English).
  16. ↑ Honors and Awards , in: The London Gazette, May 22, 2001
predecessor Office successor
Richard Thomas Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
1995-2001 		Michael Willcocks
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Sir Charles Edward Webb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British general
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Altrincham , Cheshire , England
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2007
Place of death Inverness-shire , Scotland