Dick Jones in the Friends Ambulance Unit

Dick Jones born in 1915 and educated at Cheltenham College before receiving B.A degree in history from London. His religion was not reported. He was schoolmaster until the war, and an ex Territorial Army officer. Jones joined Friends Ambulance Unit 14/11/39, St Leonards Hospital leader.

By January 1940, we was working in Finland & Norway then teaching in Sweden until repatriated. 

9/10/40 left Sweden for Cairo & Alexandria Hospital, 

25/3/41 to Greece where taken prisoner by Germans

14/5/41, in Stalag 8B prison camp, repatriated 

26/10/43, West London & Gordon Square to resigned

14/1/46 FAU Personnel file; Dick, Oswald, Worcester, one of six FAU men repatriated by Germans with other British prisoners, from 16 out of 23 FAU men captured in Greece in 1941.

As Jones joined the FAU in 1939 he was not registered as a C.O or brought before tribunal. He worked with the FAU on Finnish front evacuating refugees to Norway. He reached reached Namsos in Norway just after the last British transport left but escaped to Sweden and went via Russia and Cairo seeing the desert campaign. He later went to Greece, and during the Allied retreat helped evacuate casualties from Greek hospitals and British clearing stations until captured by Germans in 1946.

Sources: YEP 25/10/43 p8, NOJ 25/10 p2, FRI 29/10/43 p720 + 5/11/43 p743