{{Short description|WWI and WWII Canadian soldier}} {{Other people|William Jones}} {{infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Major | name = William M. Jones | honorific_suffix = | birth_date = August 23, 1895 | birth_place = Bear River, Nova Scotia, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=y|1969|9|1|1895|8|23}} | death_place = Dunnville, Ontario, Canada | allegiance = Canada | branch = | battles = {{tree list}} *World War I *World War II {{tree list/end}} | rank = Major | service_years = | units = | commands = | nickname = Lawrence of Yugoslavia | awards = Distinguished Conduct Medal with Bar }}

Major '''William M. Jones''' (August 23, 1895 – 1969) was a Canadian soldier of World War I and World War II who served with distinction with the Yugoslav Partisans.

== Biography == 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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Marble |first=Allan E. |title=Nova Scotians at Home and Abroad: including biographical sketches of over six hundred native born Nova Scotians |date=1977 |publisher=Lancelot |isbn=0-88999-074-3 |page=21 |url=https://archive.org/details/novascotiansatho0000marb/page/21 |url-access=registration}}</ref> During the Second World War, Major William M. Jones spent 12 months with the Yugoslav Partisans. On 19 May 1943, 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 Dunnville, Ontario on September 1, 1969.

== See also == *Military history of Nova Scotia

== References == ;Endnotes {{Reflist}} ;Texts * {{cite news |url=http://bosniakandjewishfriendship.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/major-william-jones-draza-mihailovic-assisted-nazis/ |title=Major William Jones: "Draza Mihailovic Assisted Nazis" |date=20 April 1946 |work=The Windsor Daily Star |page=15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407144308/http://bosniakandjewishfriendship.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/major-william-jones-draza-mihailovic-assisted-nazis/ |archive-date=2014-04-07 }}

* {{cite news |url=http://www.kingscountynews.ca/Opinion/Columns/2010-11-10/article-1951353/LAURENT-DENTREMONT-Major-William-Jones/1 |title=Major William Jones |first=Laurent |last=D’Entremont |work=Kings County Advertiser and Register |date=November 10, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407074753/http://www.kingscountynews.ca/Opinion/Columns/2010-11-10/article-1951353/LAURENT-DENTREMONT-Major-William-Jones/1 |archive-date=2014-04-07 }} * {{cite book |first=Roy |last=MacLaren |title=Canadians Behind Enemy Lines, 1939–1945 |publisher=UBC Press |date=2004 |isbn=9780774842419 |orig-year=1981 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0-HoDk45MQC&pg=PP1}} * {{cite book |first=Jozo |last=Tomasevich |title=War and Revolution in Yugoslavia: 1941 - 1945 |publisher=Stanford University Press |date=2001 |isbn=9780804779241 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fqUSGevFe5MC&pg=PP1}} * {{cite book |first=Ray E. |last=Zinck |title=The Final Flight of Maggie's Drawers: A Story of Survival, Evasion and Escape |date=1998 |publisher=Turner |isbn=9781563114250 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgsWQaerPZAC&pg=PP1}} * Rempel Arthur, Karen, 2012, '''The Tenacious Spy: The Story of William Morris Jones'', Amazon, ISBN 978-1469966755 == External links == * {{cite magazine |url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1944/12/1/jones-of-jugoslavia |title=JONES of Jugoslavia |first=William D. |last=Bayles |magazine=Maclean's |date=December 1, 1944 |access-date=June 20, 2020 |archive-date=June 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622202357/https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1944/12/1/jones-of-jugoslavia |url-status=dead }} * {{Find a Grave|93713624}}

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