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

Service Record:

WO422/Apv000208209

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-A/Z (18A/Z) (formerly Stalag 18B), Spittal, Germany

Born:

Thursday, March 25, 1915

Birthplace:

Walton, Liverpool

Died :

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Age:

Thomas Ellis Jones resided in 1939 at 63A Gwladys Street, Liverpool and joined the Liverpool City Police as a Police Constable in April that year. He volunteered for the commandos in 1942. Enlisted into the General Service Corps 23 July 1942 and posted to the 2nd Police Intake at the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. After completing the training on 24 September 1942 he was nominally transferred to the Cameron Highlanders and posted to No.3 Commando. Private Jones, No.3 Commando, 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. After the war Thomas resumed duties with the Liverpool Police retiring in 1964. His brother John James Jones served in No.7 Commando.

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

Service Record / National Archives / Ancestry.
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.

Photo of Commando in Gallery:

Yes