a friend of mines grand father served with "the micks" in WW2 and apparently was mentioned in dispatches for something he is unsure of what, when he returned to civvy street he joined the prison service in Northern Ireland sadly he was murdered in 1979 aged 60 by the IRA, he is trying to find out anything he can about his war service

The mans name is Edward Donald Jones and a number he has for him is 2718284, can anyone point me and him in the right direction.