H. A. (Henry Albert) Jones

Born in 1893, Henry Albert Jones was a British military historian and government writer whose name is closely linked with the official history of British air operations in the First World War. Sources identify him as the British government's official air historian, and his work became a major part of the long-running series The War in the Air.

Jones had direct wartime experience before becoming a historian. Records show service with the Wiltshire Regiment and then the Royal Flying Corps, and he was awarded the Military Cross; other sources also note a French Croix de Guerre with Palm. After the war, he continued in public service and later held senior information roles connected with the Air Ministry.

He wrote volumes 2 through 6, along with the appendices, of The War in the Air after Sir Walter Raleigh's first volume. He also contributed articles to the Dictionary of National Biography. Jones died on March 27, 1945, while traveling as a civilian passenger on Liberator AL504, and some records describe him at that time as Director of Public Relations at the Air Ministry.