Dad's Army: What Are The Medals Of Lance Corporal Jones?

Would he have earned any more medals for service in the home guard?

Another fantastic video! As I've written before, please consider covering Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC, KCB, KCIE, Major-General Clive Wynne-Candy, and/or the great Canadian (super) hero, James Howlett.

Interest fact if you don’t know already. A large part of the cast of Dads Army had served in the British Army, either during or after the first World War or the Second World War. So most of them would have had actual service medals.

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Well done!!
That was very enjoyable and must have been a workout for you.
I think it was a shame that he didn't get a coronation or jubilee medal at some point and if anyone is worthy of a meritorious service medal it would be him but I think you need to be a Sargent for them.
He will get the defence medal at some stage and as they took a U-boat crew captive who knows what he might have got for that!
As a set of medals it is a very impressive career and God knows what a set like that would be worth!
Now you can go and lay down in a dark room for a bit!!😅😊

Minor point, but I think it would be more correct to say that Wolseley was in overall command and Earle was in command of the river column. (spoiler: it was Gladstone's fault!)

Thanks for this one! Perhaps Pte Godfrey next....?

Lcpl Jones was actually a hero, a hero by accident.
Clive Dunn actually fought in Greece in 1941.

I think Jones appears in an early episode of Dad's Army in his WW1 uniform. Perhaps the uniform is from his earlier career and I think the episode is in colour so maybe not a very early episode. I think he's a sargeant, but then I might have got that wrong, too! Anyway great to hear more from his exploits. Thanks.

Permission to panic , mister Mainwaring! Permission to panic!

It could be that he was transferred to a new regiment or possibly signed a new contract (or reenlisted after being caught)

The British army's top officer in India cpt Bloomberg form Indian Jones and the temple of doom

The Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal ribbon is actually incorrect - since Jones joined in 1884 and the LSCGM qualification period was 18 years, he would be awarded the medal in 1902 which in that time was plain crimson. Yet Jones's ribbons show the medal with the post-1916 ribbon, which was crimson with white edges.

Otherwise, great video 👍

And after ww2 he would have added 39-45 star and the war medal and defence medal

Thank you for your excellent video

it looks like who ever came up with this medals. didn´t realy do their research. but at least it was in the right time period.

Legend has it the Lance Corporals medals were altered when the series was filmed in colour.

Funny that you mentioned the Royal West Kent Regiment.

The Home Guard platoon in “Dad’s Army” wear the cap badge of the Royal West Kent Regiment.

My Grandfather was promoted to Lance Corporal 'in the field' at Passchendaele. On a Vickers gun and prevented the trench from being overrun. No fuzzy Wuzzies, but not much fun. 9th Hawkes Bay, Wellington mounted rifles. NZ Army.

Brilliant video as usual keep up the good work

Dunn did an interview with Wogan in character and said he volunteered for the Camel Corps in Africa. Not sure if this helps the anomaly?

I saw another video about Coporal Jones medals on another channel. Someone in the BBC props department really did their homework.

Dad's Army is a series to look into after looking into the real history. And most of the cast were either WW2 military veterans or even Home Guard and WW1 veterans (Pvt Godfery).

Corporal Jones often references Field Marshal Kitchener, but I am always surprised that his character never referenced Winston Churchill, an officer in his regiment and comrade in many of his campaigns.

Next time, how about Jock Sinclair or rather most of the characters from "Tunes of Glory" (1960)? There's a lot of fun going on there. DSO, MC w/Bar, MM and all the campaign medals. It practically tells the story itself.

I've read an account of the battle of Abu Klea which put the blame for the square breaking at least partly on Colonel Fred Burnaby, who apparently ordered a unit on his side of the square to wheel outwards so give them a better field of fire, creating a gap which the dervishes exploited. Burnaby himself was attacked and killed outside the square.

Imagine Flasheart and Jonesy existing in the same universe. Id love to see that meeting.

Do someting on Godfeys medal.

The reveal that Jones was unlikely to be in the Warcs, and yet his local regiments fitting the early medals so nicely makes the ribbon bar even cooler. I wonder if the costume department knew someone who had this exact history.

If he was still alive at the end of the war he would have also earned the 1939-45 defence medal

Considering Jones was willing to volunteer for anything and get involved in the action I'm a little surprised he didn't pick at least one gallantry medal along the way.

Hey mate can you cover breaker morant and the lighthorsemen films cheers ✌

The sand of the desert is sodden red,
Red with the wreck of a square that broke;
The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead,
And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.

Great video. A suggestion to add to your list is Monty Pythons The Colonel played bu Graham Chapman. His ribbons indicate he got around a lot in the war.

How about a video on the medals that Captain Mainwaring forgot at home? 😛

I like these videos because they're informative (and it saves me a search on Google for each medal!), and the arrows are particularly useful for understanding what you are talking about. I saw both the Connery and the Brosnan Bond ones last night. My only quibble was with the film makers: they made Brosnan's Bond an OBE, when I'm sure Fleming suggested he was a CMG, like Connery's Bond

They don’t like it up ‘em!

As far as I remember there is a section where LC. Jones has a parade uniform and and there should be full medals with claps👍👍👍

Great video! I'd love to see your take on "The Duchess of Duke Street". The hotel porter (Starr) is a former Sergeant in the Rifle Brigade who fought at Omdurman, the waiter (Merriman) is a Crimean veteran, and a long term resident guest is Major Smith-Barton, 17th Lancers (retired). When WWI breaks out (Series 2), staff are ordered to wear medal ribbons, the Major is recalled to the Colours, and various friends and guests join up. To my familiar but non-expert eye, they do a very good job. It's particularly interesting to see how, as the War progresses, the Major and Charlie Hazelmere gain ribbons in an appropriate manner.

At Abu Klea, Frederick Burnaby, a civilian adventurer, urged the impressionable Lord Charles Beresford (Naval Brigade) to move the Gardner gun out front to get a better angle of fire. That weakened an already fragile line and can be said to have let the square be broken.

He would also have the ww2 trio for service in the Home Guard surely and maybe clasp for his Long Service and Good Conduct medals? Though they would come in 1945 possibly.

Wildly off topic, but I find the idea of a Bootneck riding a ship of the desert deeply amusing.

I’d recommend reading vital lampada for an insight into how the battle of Abu klea was een

In dads army he was a butcher
Learned in the army?
Could explain how got around

I would like you to do a review of

General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, GCB, GCMG, DSO, TD

Makes sense. A man in his 70’s in 1942 would be in his 20’s in 1890. He would have seen a lot of wars in his time.

Mainwaring, who never saw active service, mocks Jonesy, asking if he really earned them! Suggesting he might be a walt! And then saying it’s not the past that counts.

Mainwaring, who never saw active service, mocks Jonesy, asking if he really earned them! Suggesting he might be a walt! And then saying it’s not the past that counts. Pompous!

Great video thank you