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- The London Gazette 1 Aug 1918 pg 9086 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30823/supplement/9086/data.pdf
CBE, London Gazette 1 January 1954
Lionel POWYS-JONES was born in July 1894, the son of Llewellyn POWYS-JONES, a Resident Magistrate in Bulawayo, and was educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, Victoria College, Jersey and Oriel College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Returning home to Rhodesia, he joined the Native Affairs Department, and in 1916 enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Rhodesia Regiment. Subsequently commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he was wounded in 1918.
Back in the Service of the Native Affairs department by 1919, he went on to enjoy a long and distinguished career, ultimately gaining appointment as Secretary for Native Affairs and Chief Native Commissioner in 1947. POWYS-JONES was one of only 16 persons to hold his high office in the period 1894-1978, and one of only two to be subsequently honoured with a CBE.
He had, meanwhile, joined the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers, and attended assorted musketry courses in the period leading up to the 1939-45 War. Placed on the Reserve of Officers in March 1940, he served in a Concession Platoon from August of that year until April 1942, and is a verified recipient of the Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service, the relevant roll stating, ‘Jones, L X8610, Army’, which corresponds with his Q & R card in the archives in Harare.
POWYS-JONES finally retired in 1954, in which year he was awarded his CBE. A keen tennis player who onetime represented Rhodesia, he settled in Somerset West, Cape Province, where he died in November 1966.
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