Percy L. Jones | |
Birth Name: | Percy Lancelot Jones |
Birth Date: | 26 May 1875 |
Resting Place: | Arlington National Cemetery |
Occupation: | Army Medical Corps officer |
Colonel Percy Lancelot Jones (26 May 1875 – 9 August 1941) was an Army Medical Corps officer who served in the Spanish–American War and World War I, where he was instrumental in modernizing battlefield casualty evacuation.[1] Jones was the commander of an ambulance service which served the French Army during World War I. In 1925, he headed a team assisting in the flood relief for Newton, Georgia and organised an anti-typhoid immunisation program. Three years later, following a hurricane in Florida, he was appointed sanitation adviser to West Palm Beach.[2] On 1 August 1942, the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Michigan, was renamed the Percy L. Jones General Hospital for casualties of war.[3]
Upon his death in 1941 he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.[4]