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]
Percy L. Jones | |
|---|---|
| Born | Percy Lancelot Jones May 26, 1875 |
| Died | August 9, 1941 (aged 66) |
| Resting place | Arlington National Cemetery |
| Occupation | Army Medical Corps officer |
Upon his death in 1941 he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.[4]
References edit
- ^ Glazer, Lawrence M. (2010). Wounded Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Michigan Governor John Swainson. MSU Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-1628951516.
- ^ Textbooks of Military Medicine: Military Preventive Medicine, Mobilization and Deployment, V. l, 2003. Government Printing Office. p. 88. ISBN 978-0160873119.
- ^ Hospitals: The Journal of the American Hospital Association, XVI (Ju.–Dec. 1942), 61.
- ^ Burial detail: Jones, Percy L. – ANC Explorer
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