WW1 Medal Pair to Reverand Jones Army Chaplain. MID

A WW1 British war medal and victory medal correctly named to the Reverand John Gower Jones B.A. MID Army Chaplains Department. Victory medal with MID oak leaves emblem.
John Gower Jones was born in Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales on 21 January 1864. He was brought up on his father’s farm with four other siblings. He was educated at University College Bangor and studied Theology at Jesus College Oxford and took his BA Batcheler of Arts exams in 1891. He married Florence in the September that year before moving on to his first appointment with the Church, which was as Curate at Tredagar in Wales. He stayed here until 1895 when he became the Curate of Mountain Ash Church in Cardiff. In 1898 he moved to Penmaen, 1900 to St Woolos Newport, still at the position of Curate. In 1905 he became Vicar of Glyntaff, south-east of Pontypridd. And he settled here with Florance and is children, Jene, Muriel and Basil.
In 1916 he was commissioned into the army as temporary Chaplain to the Forces and posted to France. On the 13th December 1916 he was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches for Gallant and Distinguished service in France.
He relinquished his commission in 1919 and went back to his family as Vicar of Glyntaff and in 1929 he was made Rural Dean of Rhondda.
Sadly, the reverend John Gower Jones died in 1947, accomplishing a lifetime of service to the Church of Wales.
His medals are in excellent original condition and come with various copied research.

Code: 31018