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	[[Lieutenant]] '''Elias Henry Jones''' (21 September 1883 – 22 December 1942) was a [[Wales\|Welsh]] administrator in India and officer in the [[British Indian Army\|Indian Army]] who, together with [[Australia]]n [[C. W. Hill]], escaped from the [[Yozgad]] [[prisoner of war camp]] in [[Turkey]] during the [[First World War]]. Their story was told in Jones' book ''The Road to En-dor''.<ref name=DWB>{{cite DWB\|id=s2-JONE-HEN-1883 \|title=Jones, Elias Henry \|accessdate=10 November ~~2022~~}}</ref>		[[Lieutenant]] '''Elias Henry Jones''' (21 September 1883 – 22 December 1942) was a [[Wales\|Welsh]] administrator in India and officer in the [[British Indian Army\|Indian Army]] who, together with [[Australia]]n [[C. W. Hill]], escaped from the [[Yozgad]] [[prisoner of war camp]] in [[Turkey]] during the [[First World War]]. Their story was told in Jones' book ''The Road to En-dor''.<ref name=DWB>{{cite DWB\|id=s2-JONE-HEN-1883 \|title=Jones, Elias Henry \|accessdate=10 November 2013}}</ref>

	== Life ==		== Life ==

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	[[Lieutenant]] '''Elias Henry Jones''' (21 September 1883 – 22 December 1942) was a [[Wales\|Welsh]] officer in the [[British Indian Army\|Indian Army]] who, together with [[~~Australian~~]] [[C. W. Hill]], escaped from the [[Yozgad]] [[prisoner of war camp]] in [[Turkey]] during the [[First World War]]. Their story was told in Jones' book ''The Road to En-dor''.<ref name=DWB>{{cite DWB\|id=s2-JONE-HEN-1883 \|title=Jones, Elias Henry \|accessdate=10 November ~~2013~~}}</ref>		[[Lieutenant]] '''Elias Henry Jones''' (21 September 1883 – 22 December 1942) was a [[Wales\|Welsh]] administrator in India and officer in the [[British Indian Army\|Indian Army]] who, together with [[Australia]]n [[C. W. Hill]], escaped from the [[Yozgad]] [[prisoner of war camp]] in [[Turkey]] during the [[First World War]]. Their story was told in Jones' book ''The Road to En-dor''.<ref name=DWB>{{cite DWB\|id=s2-JONE-HEN-1883 \|title=Jones, Elias Henry \|accessdate=10 November 2022}}</ref>

	== Life ==		== Life ==
	Jones joined the Indian Army and, after serving as a private soldier in a Volunteer Artillery Battery, was commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers on 22 September 1915. He served in Mesopotamia during the [[World War I\|First World War]] as part of the Indian Expeditionary Force and taken prisoner in April 1916. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 22 September 1916.<ref name=DWB/>		The son of the Welsh philosopher [[Henry Jones (philosopher)\|Sir Henry Jones]], Jones entered the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1906 and served in Burma. On the outbreak of the First World War, he joined the Indian Army and, after serving as a private soldier in a Volunteer Artillery Battery, was commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers on 22 September 1915. He served in Mesopotamia during the [[World War I\|First World War]] as part of the Indian Expeditionary Force and taken prisoner in April 1916. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 22 September 1916.<ref name=DWB/>

	After the war, he ~~became Financial Commissioner and retired~~ in ~~1922~~, ~~settling~~ in [[Bangor, Gwynedd\|Bangor]], North Wales.		After the war, he served for a time as Lord Curzon's secretary on the Foreign Office Middle East Committee, before returning to Burma. Retiring from the ICS in 1924, he settled in [[Bangor, Gwynedd\|Bangor]], North Wales and became secretary and registrar to the University College of North Wales.

	== Prison life and escape ==		== Prison life and escape ==
	Between February 1917 and October 1918, Jones and Hill convinced their Turkish captors that they were [[Medium (spirituality)\|mediums]] adept at the [[Ouija]] board. The pair spent over a year conning the camp's commandant. Eventually they persuaded their Turkish captors they were insane and, after being moved to a hospital for the mentally ill in the summer of 1918, the two men played their roles as lunatics so successfully they also fooled the doctors and were returned home. They arrived home a few months before their brother officers were released from ~~Yozgad~~.		Between February 1917 and October 1918, Jones and Hill convinced their Turkish captors that they were [[Medium (spirituality)\|mediums]] adept at the [[Ouija]] board. The pair spent over a year conning the camp's commandant. Eventually they persuaded their Turkish captors they were insane and, after being moved to a hospital for the mentally ill in the summer of 1918, the two men played their roles as lunatics so successfully they also fooled the doctors and were returned home. They arrived home a few months before their brother officers were released from Yozgat.

	== Influences ==		== Influences ==
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{{Infobox military person
| name = Elias Henry Jones
| birth_date = 21 September 1883
| death_date = 22 December 1942
| allegiance = United Kingdom
| branch = [[File:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]
| serviceyears = 22 September 1915 – 11 November 1918
| rank = Lieutenant
| battles = [[World War I]]<br/>
* [[Siege of Kut]]
| laterwork = Financial Commissioner
}}

[[Lieutenant]] '''Elias Henry Jones''' (21 September 1883 – 22 December 1942) was a [[Wales|Welsh]] officer in the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] who, together with [[Australian]] [[C. W. Hill]], escaped from the [[Yozgad]] [[prisoner of war camp]] in [[Turkey]] during the [[First World War]]. Their story was told in Jones' book ''The Road to En-dor''.<ref name=DWB>{{cite DWB|id=s2-JONE-HEN-1883 |title=Jones, Elias Henry |accessdate=10 November 2013}}</ref>

== Life ==
Jones joined the Indian Army and, after serving as a private soldier in a Volunteer Artillery Battery, was commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers on 22 September 1915. He served in Mesopotamia during the [[World War I|First World War]] as part of the Indian Expeditionary Force and taken prisoner in April 1916. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 22 September 1916.<ref name=DWB/>

After the war, he became Financial Commissioner and retired in 1922, settling in [[Bangor, Gwynedd|Bangor]], North Wales.

== Prison life and escape ==
Between February 1917 and October 1918, Jones and Hill convinced their Turkish captors that they were [[Medium (spirituality)|mediums]] adept at the [[Ouija]] board. The pair spent over a year conning the camp's commandant. Eventually they persuaded their Turkish captors they were insane and, after being moved to a hospital for the mentally ill in the summer of 1918, the two men played their roles as lunatics so successfully they also fooled the doctors and were returned home. They arrived home a few months before their brother officers were released from Yozgad.

== Influences ==
''The Road to En-dor'' was scripted for film in 2008 by [[Neil Gaiman]] and [[Penn Jillette]] (of [[Penn and Teller]]).<ref>[http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/11/11/neil-gaiman-and-penn-jillette-adapting-the-road-to-endor/ firstshowing.net: Neil Gaiman and Penn Jillette Adapting The Road to Endor]</ref> A film was never produced.<ref name=Dirda/>

[[Mark Valentine]] included an essay on ''The Road to En-Dor'' in his collection, ''A Wild Tumultory Library'' (2019).<ref name=Dirda/>

In 2021, American author [[Margalit Fox]] published ''The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History'', a retelling of the events described in Jone's memoir with additional context and research.<ref name=Dirda>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-greatest-prison-escape-ever-the-confidence-men-tells-a-sensational-true-story/2021/06/15/4a7065f2-cd2d-11eb-8cd2-4e95230cfac2_story.html |title=The greatest prison escape ever? ‘The Confidence Men’ tells a sensational true story |work=[[The Washington Post]] |author=[[Michael Dirda]] |date= June 16, 2021|accessdate=June 17, 2021}}</ref>

==References==
*''The Road to En-dor'', E. H. Jones, 1919
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==External links==
*[https://archive.org/details/roadtoendor00unkngoog ''The Road to En-Dor''] at the [[Internet Archive]]

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