JONES, Kenneth Claude
| Service Numbers: | N252904, A2636 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 11th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales Australia , 28 November 1923 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fitter and Turner |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 11 July 1987, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 19 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N252904, 11th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 29 Nov 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N252904, 11th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| 17 Dec 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, A2636 |
Korean War Service
| 2 Sep 1950: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, A2636 | |
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| 10 Oct 1950: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, A2636 | |
| 7 Dec 1950: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, A2636 | |
| 11 Dec 1950: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, A2636 | |
| 27 Nov 1951: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, A2636 | |
| 1 Jan 1952: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches, Corporal: No 77 Squadron ‘Meritorious service and selfless devotion in Korea’ London Gazette: 1 April 1952 on page 1827 at position 9 Commonwealth Gazette: 9 April 1952 on page 2137 at position 9 |
World War 2 Service
| 16 Mar 1960: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, A2636 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Kenneth Claude Jones (Service No:N252904) enlisted in the ACMF on 19 January 1942. He was attached to 11th NSW Battalion VDC on 1 December 1943 when he Discharged to serve with the RAAF. Mustered as a Fitter IIE, Sergeant Jones (Service No:A2636) then served in Korea, attached as a Leading Aircraftman to No 77 Squadron (Fighter). In 1951 Corporal Jones was awarded a Mention in Despatches 'For Meritorious Services and Selfless Devotion in Korea' (Australian War Memorial). Sergeant Jones was attached to 486 Squadron when he Discharged on 16 March 1960.
Born in 1923 in Sydney NSW, Ken was the second of four children of Claude Ardolph Frederick Jones (b1895 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Daisy May Cook (b1900 in Goulbourn, NSW). Claude (a Tram Conductor) and Daisy married in 1922 in Goulburn NSW and settled in Sydney where they raised their family and Claude worked as a Tram Conductor. Claude had served in WWI (Private; Service no:3361).
Ken was a Fitter and Turner prior to his enlistment in the ACMF in 1942. In 1943 he enlisted in the RAAF, serving in Korea in 1950/1951. Ken remained in the RAAF and in 1956 in Cootamundra, NSW married Maureen Joan Blackney (b1933 in Cootamundra, NSW) - Maureen was a Shop Assistant. Ken and Maureen settled in Rooty Hill in Sydney,NSW and Ken is recorded in the Census and Electoral Records through to 1980 as an Airman in the RAAF. Ken died in 1987.
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