WWII Merchant Navy/99 Company Royal Army Service Corps. Water Transport. Ships Master. Born Liverpool. Thomas John McLoughlin Jones

An interesting medal and ephemera group .

Thomas John Jones was born 1899 at Liverpool.

It seems he served in the merchant Navy from the early 1920s .

Working his way up 1st mate before being discharged I 1942 at Cardiff to join the Royal Army service corp water transport .

Inc are his 3 ww2 medals the 1939 star , Atlantic star and war medal unnamed as issued.

It seems he served with 99 coy rasc wt out of Cairnryan.

His address given as gwelfor,  Cairnryan,  Stranraer,  Wigtownshire .

He changed his name at some point adding in the mcloughlin all mentioned in his mn certificate of service .

It seems he continued postwar with rasc disposing of government stores and dumping explosives in Irish Sea from exnavy landing crafts .

There are many documents inc it seems he was based out of Dublin  Ireland  during late 1930s with saorstat and continental steamship Co.

He also passed a 1st aid course with St John ambulance association in Dublin March 1939 .

He retired from war dept march 1958 .