In which battle of May 1982 did Colonel H. Jones win his posthumous V.C.?
H. Jones H. Jones Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Jones, (14 May 1940 – 28 May 1982), known as H. Jones, was a British Army officer and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC). He was awarded the VC after being killed in action during the Battle of Goose Green for his actions as commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment during the Falklands War. 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.
H. V. Porter Porter married Grace Kromminga, a school teacher, in 1914. The couple had no children. After Porter's retirement in 1958, they relocated to St. Petersburg, Florida, where Porter died in 1975 at the age of 84. His ashes are inurned in the mausoleum of Memorial Park Cemetery in St. Petersburg. In 1960 Porter was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a "contributor to basketball." When the National Federation inaugurated its National High School Hall of Fame in 1982, Porter was a posthumous member of its first class. H. V. Porter Henry Van Arsdale "H. V." Porter (October