Colonel Percy Lancelot Jones, U.S. Army Medical Corps, was a surgeon in the Spanish-American War, the Mexican Campaign and World War I.
Colonel Jones was a pioneer of modern battlefield ambulance evacuation and commanded the Ambulance Division which was detached from the Allied Expeditionary Forces to the French Army during World War I. Jones organized what was called the first mobile medical treatment in military history.
The French Government decorated him with the Croix de Guerre and made him an officer of the French Legion of Honor. Colonel Jones was decorated by the U.S Army after the war for organizing what was called the finest mobile medical treatment in military history. Jones and his ambulance service were instrumental in creating the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps.
Colonel Jones retired as commander of the Army Hospital at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, In August 1931, to become head of Hammond Hospital in Erie, Pa., and died in 1941.
Colonel Jones was a pioneer of modern battlefield ambulance evacuation and commanded the Ambulance Division which was detached from the Allied Expeditionary Forces to the French Army during World War I. Jones organized what was called the first mobile medical treatment in military history.
The French Government decorated him with the Croix de Guerre and made him an officer of the French Legion of Honor. Colonel Jones was decorated by the U.S Army after the war for organizing what was called the finest mobile medical treatment in military history. Jones and his ambulance service were instrumental in creating the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps.
Colonel Jones retired as commander of the Army Hospital at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, In August 1931, to become head of Hammond Hospital in Erie, Pa., and died in 1941.
Colonel Percy Lancelot Jones, U.S. Army Medical Corps, was a surgeon in the Spanish-American War, the Mexican Campaign and World War I.
Colonel Jones was a pioneer of modern battlefield ambulance evacuation and commanded the Ambulance Division which was detached from the Allied Expeditionary Forces to the French Army during World War I. Jones organized what was called the first mobile medical treatment in military history.
The French Government decorated him with the Croix de Guerre and made him an officer of the French Legion of Honor. Colonel Jones was decorated by the U.S Army after the war for organizing what was called the finest mobile medical treatment in military history. Jones and his ambulance service were instrumental in creating the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps.
Colonel Jones retired as commander of the Army Hospital at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, In August 1931, to become head of Hammond Hospital in Erie, Pa., and died in 1941.
Colonel Jones was a pioneer of modern battlefield ambulance evacuation and commanded the Ambulance Division which was detached from the Allied Expeditionary Forces to the French Army during World War I. Jones organized what was called the first mobile medical treatment in military history.
The French Government decorated him with the Croix de Guerre and made him an officer of the French Legion of Honor. Colonel Jones was decorated by the U.S Army after the war for organizing what was called the finest mobile medical treatment in military history. Jones and his ambulance service were instrumental in creating the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps.
Colonel Jones retired as commander of the Army Hospital at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, In August 1931, to become head of Hammond Hospital in Erie, Pa., and died in 1941.
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