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| Birth name | John Stephen Major Jones | |||||||||||||
| Born | 22 April 1930 Church Stretton, Great Britain | |||||||||||||
| Died | 9 September 2011 (aged 81) England | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||
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