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Sir (Robert) Owen Jones

by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, September 1943
4 3/4 in. x 3 1/4 in. (121 mm x 84 mm) image size
Commissioned, 1943
Photographs Collection
NPG x169265

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  • Walter Stoneman (1876-1958), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 18527 portraits, Sitter in 8 portraits.

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Current affairs

The War effort continues with women recruited to the Home Guard and Ernie Bevin introducing conscription of miners as coal output continues to flag.
There is panic when a new anti aircraft weapon is heard for the first time in London and 173 people die in the crush to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.

Art and science

Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb is used during Operation Chastise - the Dam busters Raid - to destroy three dams in the Ruhr area of Germany. The raid was considered a success, knocking out hydroelectric power, cutting off the water supply to industry and causing devastation through flooding. The operation also, however, cost the allies many lives, and the bouncing bomb was not used again.

International

The invasion of Sicily is successful thanks to Operation Mincemeat, in which false documents were planted on the body of a dead airman to mislead Germany into thinking that the Allied target was Sardinia. The invasion led to the fall of Mussolini and Italy joining the Allies.
42,000 German civilians are killed in a firestorm in Hamburg caused by the Allied bombing in Operation Gomorrah.

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Ann Hart (Nee Jones) his daughter

22 October 2015, 11:18

Owen Jones became an RAF pilot officer in 1924 alternating flying duty with technical duty until 1938. He worked at Farnborough (1931-1934) on instrument design, particularly the development and air-testing of the gyro-magnetic distant reading compass - widely used later. Flying duties included commanding 11 squadron (1936 – 1938) when they opened long distance air reinforcement routes from India to Singapore and Egypt. He was recalled in 1938 as an Air Ministry Overseer – particularly to see the Whitley bomber into service. He spent much of the Second World War with the Ministry of Aircraft Production: initially on the layout of instruments and equipment in new types of aircraft; then two years in the USA on the procurement of aircraft, equipment and information exchange; becoming Deputy Controller of Research and Development in 1943. He retired in 1956 as Air Marshal - Controller of Engineering and Equipment at the Air Ministry.

UK decorations: AFC 1939, CB 1944, KBE 1953. USA decorations: LOM (Cdr) 1946.

President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers 1958 and of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1961.