William M. Jones

For other people named William Jones, see William Jones (disambiguation).

Major William M. Jones (1895–1969) was a Canadian soldier of World War I and World War II who served with distinction with the Yugoslav Partisans.

Jones was born in Bear River, Nova Scotia. His code name was "Lawrence of Yugoslavia" (a term also used to describe Linn Farrish). In World War I, Jones was wounded three times, losing one eye, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal with Bar. Doring the Second World War, Major William M. Jones spent 12 months in the Yugoslav Partisan’s headquarters in Bosnia. In 1944, he parachuted into Yugoslavia to become an Allied representative to Marshal Josip Broz Tito. He features in Eastern Approaches, the first memoirs of Fitzroy Maclean. Jones died in Ontario.

See also

• Military history of Nova Scotia

References

Endnotes

Texts

• Major William Jones by Laurent D’Entremont. Kings County Advertiser and Register. November 10, 2010
• Major William Jones: “Draza Mihailovic Assisted Nazis” 20 April 1946, The Windsor Daily Star, p.15
• Ray E. Zinck. The Final Flight of Maggie's Drawers: A Story of Survival, Evasion and Escape [of William M. Jones]
• Roy MacLaren. Canadians Behind Enemy Lines, 1939-1945, UBC Press.
• Jozo Tomasevich. War and Revolution in Yugoslavia: 1941 - 1945. Stanford University Press.

External links

• Portrait of William M. Jones, Nova Scotians at home and abroad: biographical sketches of over six hundred native born Nova Scotians
• William M. Jones at Find a Grave