Percy L. Jones

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.[2] 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.[3] On 1 August 1942, the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Michigan, was renamed the Percy L. Jones General Hospital for casualties of war.[4]

Percy L. Jones
Born
Percy Lancelot Jones

(1875-05-26)May 26, 1875
DiedAugust 9, 1941(1941-08-09) (aged 66)
Resting placeArlington National Cemetery
OccupationArmy Medical Corps officer

References
  1. Glazer, Lawrence M. (2010). Wounded Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Michigan Governor John Swainson. MSU Press. p. 24.
  2. "Percy Lancelot Jones". ArlingtonCemetery.Net (an unofficial website).
  3. Textbooks of Military Medicine: Military Preventive Medicine, Mobilization and Deployment, V. l, 2003. Government Printing Office. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-16-087311-9.
  4. Hospitals: The Journal of the American Hospital Association, XVI (Ju.–Dec. 1942), 61.


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