Admiral Sir Philip Andrew Jones KCB, ADC is a senior Royal Navy officer. After service in the South Atlantic in 1982 during the Falklands War, he commanded the frigates HMS160Beaver and HMS160Coventry. He went on to be Flag Officer, Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland, Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff before being appointed Fleet Commander and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff. Jones took over as First Sea Lord onApril 2016.
Jones was born onFebruary 1960. He is the son of Edgar Jones and Lilian Jones . He was educated at Birkenhead School, Mansfield College, Oxford and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
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