 Eyton-Jones served as a medical officer in the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and saw action in World War I as a Captain with the Royal Army Medical Corps.Eyton-Jones worked as a local doctor and surgeon in the Wrexham area and lived at Abbotsfield on Grosvenor Road.This elegant neo-gothic Grade II Listed house was designed by architect James Reynolds Gummow of the Wrexham architect family in the 1860s as a private residence, and was purchased by Eyton-Jones in 1895.