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Owen Meredith Clement Jones was born in Bradford on 6 December 1912, the son of Gertrude (née Smith) and Alfred Clement Jones, a master at Bradford Grammar School. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School from 1920 to 1931, where he was a member of the Debating Society and the Historical Society.
Owen Jones entered Worcester College on 9 October 1931 as an Exhibitioner. He achieved 2nd class honours in Modern History in 1934 and after leaving Oxford worked as a stationer and bookseller in Southampton. He married Constance Maud Smith in 1940.
Prior to the Second World War Owen Jones served as a pilot in the Civil Air Guard. He enlisted in the RAFVR and travelled to Canada for pilot training, landing at Halifax on 17 June 1941. He attended No. 31 Bombing and Gunnery School, Royal Canadian Air Force at Picton airfield in Ontario, and spent his leave in February 1942 in New York, travelling via Niagara Falls. Jones rose to the rank of warrant officer before being commissioned as a probationary Pilot Officer on 18 May 1944. He was posted to 166 Squadron in August 1944, and transferred to 153 Squadron on 7 October that year.
On 28 January 1945 Owen Jones and his crew took off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire for an operation over Stuttgart. Their Lancaster crashed en route to their target at the village of Michelbach bei Sinsheim and Flying Officer Owen Jones was killed, aged 32. He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 27 March 1945.
Owen Jones is buried at Durnbach War Cemetery in Germany and is commemorated on the war memorials at Bradford Grammar School and Worcester College, Oxford.