Percy L. Jones Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Glazer, Lawrence M.. Wounded Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Michigan Governor John Swainson. MSU Press. 2010. 24. 978-1628951516.
  2. Book: Textbooks of Military Medicine: Military Preventive Medicine, Mobilization and Deployment, V. l, 2003. Government Printing Office. 978-0160873119. 88.
  3. Hospitals: The Journal of the American Hospital Association, XVI (Ju.–Dec. 1942), 61.
  4. https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgVqb25lcxIFcGVyY3kaAWw-/ Burial detail: Jones, Percy L.