Sergeant John Jones was a World War I flying ace

Flying ace

A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...

 credited with 15 aerial victories.

John Jones served as an observer gunner in the Bristol F.2 Fighter

Bristol F.2 Fighter

The Bristol F.2 Fighter was a British two-seat biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War flown by the Royal Flying Corps. It is often simply called the Bristol Fighter or popularly the "Brisfit" or "Biff". Despite being a two-seater, the F.2B proved to be an agile aircraft...

s of No. 22 Squadron. Flying with such pilots as Second Lieutenants Frank George Gibbons

Frank George Gibbons

Lieutenant Frank George Gibbons was an aviation pioneer. He was a flying ace credited with fourteen victories, all against enemy fighter planes, during World War I. Postwar, he became an air racer.-World War I:...

, Sydney A. Oades

Sydney A. Oades

Sydney Arthur Oades was a British World War I flying ace credited with 11 official aerial victories.-World War I:Sydney Arthur Oades originally served as a sapper with the Royal Engineers....

, Stanley Wallace, and William John Mostyn, Jones began his victory streak on 5 December 1917. Six months later, on 2 June 1918, he had run his total to four enemy airplanes and an observation balloon destroyed, and ten planes driven down out of control.

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