JONES, Thomas Ellis

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Rank: 
Private
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Prior Police Service: 
Liverpool City Police
Regiment/Corps: 
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Service: 
Army
Number: 
14241672
P.O.W. number: 
6657
P.O.W. camps: 
Camp PG66, Capua, Italy
Camp PG73, Fossoli di Carpi, Modena, Italy
Stalag XVIII-A (18A), Wolfsberg Austria
Stalag XVIII-B (18B) (later Stalag 334), Menkendorf, Germany
Born: 
Thursday, March 25, 1915
Died : 
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Age: 
92
Thomas Ellis Jones 3 Commando
Thomas Ellis Jones joined the Liverpool City Police in April 1939. He volunteered for the Commandos enlisting on 23 July 1942 as part of the 2nd Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. Private Thomas Jones, No.3 Commando, was reported missing on 14 July 1943 during operations at Agnone Sicily and Malati Bridge (3 Commando Bridge), later found to be a prisoner of war.
Prison Camps
18.07.1943 - 28.08.1943 Campo PG66.
28.08.1943 - 11.09.1943 Campo PG73.
11.09.1943 - 27.04.1945 Stalag XVIIIA.
27.04.1945 - 09.05.1945 Stalag XVIIIB.
 
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/66.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/167/2.
The 1939 Register covering Liverpool.
His daughter Kath Breen.
 
Photo of Commando in Gallery: 
Yes
Additional content: 
3 Commando at Sicily and Malati Bridge’
Archive pages : 
No 3 Commando
Prisoners of War

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