H . Jones Lieutenant - Colonel Herbert Jones , VC , OBE ( 14 May 1940 – 28 May 1982 ) , known as H . Jones , was a British army officer and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross . He was awarded the VC after being killed in action during the Battle of Goose Green for his actions as commanding officer of 2 Battalion , Parachute Regiment during the Falklands War . Background . Jones was born in Putney the eldest of three sons of Herbert Jones ( 1888 – 1957 ) , an American artist , and his Welsh wife , Olwen Pritchard ( 1902 – 1990 ) , a nurse . He attended St . Peter ' s Preparatory School in Seaford , Sussex and Eton College . He joined the British Army on leaving school and on graduation from the Royal Military Academy , Sandhurst on 23 July 1960 , was commissioned into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment as a second lieutenant . He was promoted to lieutenant on 23 January 1962 , captain on 23 July 1966 , and major on 31 December 1972 , At this time he was brigade major at HQ 3rd Infantry Brigade in Northern Ireland . As such he was responsible for the efforts to find Captain Robert Nairac who had been abducted by the Provisional IRA . Nairac and Jones had become friends and would sometimes go to the Jones household for supper . After a four day search , the Garda Síochána confirmed that Nairac had been shot and killed in the Republic of Ireland after being smuggled over the border . On 13 December 1977 he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire ( MBE ) for his services in Northern Ireland that year . On 30 June 1979 he was promoted lieutenant - colonel , and on 1 December 1979 , he was transferred to the Parachute Regiment . In the 1981 New Year Honours he was promoted to Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) . Falklands War . During the Falklands War he was in command of 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment ( 2 PARA ) . During an attack against entrenched Argentinian positions , with his unit pinned down by heavy fire of MAG and FAL , he led a charge against the nearest position . He was killed while doing so but the Argentinian unit surrendered shortly afterwards . For his actions he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the National Army Museum in Chelsea , London , England . Command of 2 PARA passed to Major Chris Keeble , and Jones was buried at Ajax Bay on 30 May near where he died of wounds . After the war his body was exhumed and buried at the Blue Beach War Cemetery in Port San Carlos on 25 October . Few historians have disputed his valour . However , ex - TA Para officer and military theorist Spencer Fitz - Gibbon wrote in 1995 that despite his undoubted courage H did more to hinder than to help 2 Para , losing sight of the overall battle picture and failing to allow his sub - unit commanders to exercise Mission Command , before his fatal attempt to lead " A " Company forward from the position where they had become bogged down . Memorials . Jones is buried in the Blue Beach War Cemetery under a headstone which is topped by the Parachute Regiment ' s insignia and also features an image of the Victoria Cross . The headstone includes the quotation " He is not the beginning but the continuing of the same unto the end . " A street in Stanley was named H Jones Road in his memory in addition to Jones Avenue in Mount Pleasant air base . A memorial stone to all those killed at the scene of the battle , near Darwin , also bears his name . His name is also on the South Atlantic Task Force Memorial in St Paul ' s Cathedral , London , on the wall with the names of the fallen in the Falklands Memorial Chapel at Pangbourne College , and the Parachute Regiment Memorial at their headquarters in Aldershot ; he also has a memorial in the cloisters of Eton College and a plaque on a footpath at Kingswear , Devon . The memorial board from St Peter ' s School , carved with the name of Jones can be seen in Seaford Museum . In addition the ' Colonel H ' Public house in Great Yarmouth , Norfolk is named in his honour . There is a wooden plaque memorial in Kingswear parish church and a copy of the citation is on view near the memorial . Family . Jones ' s widow , Sara , was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) for charity work ( she is involved with a number of charities related to the armed forces ) and since 2003 has been a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire . Both of their sons , Brigadier Rupert Jones MBE and David Jones served as infantry officers in the Devon and Dorsets ( now merged into The Rifles ) . Rupert was appointed MBE in the 2001 Queen ' s Birthday Honours and is commander of the 1st Mechanized Brigade .