Enlisted Montreal, 14 August 1940.

Trained at No.2 ITS (graduated 27 November 1940), No.7 EFTS (graduated 16 January 1941) and No.6 SFTS (graduated 29 March 1941).

Graduated as a Sergeant; promoted to Flight Sergeant, 1 October 1941;

commissioned on 18 November 1941;

promoted to Flying Officer, 1 October 1942 and to Flight Lieutenant, 18 November 1943.

Arrived overseas, April 1941;

to No.55 OTU, 26 May 1941;

to No.121 (Eagle) Squadron, 12 July 1941. Missing in action in Spitfire AB206 (POW), 8 March 1942;

repatriated 29 May 1945;

released 5 September 1945. Served in postwar USAF.

Citation provided by Lt-Col J.A.P. Thomas, Military Air Attache at the American Embassy, writing to AFHQ, 15 March 1946.

On documents filed on release he said he had flown 50 operational and 100 non-operational hours; elsewhere he claims 175 hours flown overseas (125 non-operational), and yet he claims only two combat sorties (sweeps) - possibly only two offensive sorties and the balance being patrols or convoy protection sorties.



Citation: 'Flight Lieutenant W.L.C. Jones, RCAF, demonstrated outstanding courage and judgement while imprisoned at Stalag Luft III, Germany, from September 1943 to April 1945. He gained entry for implements and supplies valuable to Americans planning escape and alerted these men against "surprise" searches by his successful bribing of German guards.'