Robert Llewellyn Jephson-Jones

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Brigadier (then Captain) Robert Llewellyn Jephson-Jones was awarded the George Cross for the bravery he showed in defusing a bomb on Malta in June 1940 while serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Notice of his award appeared in the London Gazette on Christmas Eve, 1940. [1]

The son of a clergyman, he was born on April the 7th, 1905 and began his officer training at Sandhurst in 1923. He was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in 1925, served as Adjutant of the 6th Nigerian Regiment in 1932-4 and joined the RAOC in 1936. He died, in Ferndown in Dorset, on the 27th of October 1985.