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
Service Number:
14241672
P.O.W. number:
6657
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Thursday, March 25, 1915
Died :
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Age:
92
Thomas Ellis Jones resided in 1939 at 63A Gwladys Street, Liverpool. He joined the Liverpool City Police as a Police Constable in April that year. On 23 July 1942 Police Constable Jones volunteered for the Commandos and was posted for training to the 2nd Police Intake at the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. He passed his training and was attached to No.3 Commando.
Private Jones was reported missing in Italy on 14 July 1943 during operations at Agnone Sicily and Malati Bridge (3 Commando Bridge), later found to be a prisoner of war.
His brother John James Jones served in No.7 Commando. After the war Thomas resumed his duties with the Liverpool Police retiring in 1964.
Private Jones was reported missing in Italy on 14 July 1943 during operations at Agnone Sicily and Malati Bridge (3 Commando Bridge), later found to be a prisoner of war.
His brother John James Jones served in No.7 Commando. After the war Thomas resumed his duties with the Liverpool Police retiring in 1964.
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.
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.
Memoir of Thomas E. Jones documented in the book War and Police - A Bobby's Tale, published by his daughter Kath Breen.
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