JONES, William Price
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Known as:
Billy
Rank:
Lance Sergeant
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Welch Fusiliers
Service:
Army
Number:
4198274
P.O.W. number:
225474
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Sunday, September 2, 1917
William Price Jones, a Gardener from Conway in Caernarvonshire, enlisted 17 January 1940. After volunteering for the Commandos he was attached to No.3 Commando. Lance Sergeant Jones was reported missing 14 July 1943 during operations in Sicily, later found to be a prisoner of war. Post war member of the Commando Association.
Sources
Sources
R.W.F. Enlistment Register Book 21 / R.W.F. Museum ref. 8613W.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/66.
Prisoners of War Lists / National Archives file WO392/1.
Prisoners of War Lists / National Archives file WO392/1.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/167/2.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 104 issued March 1997.
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