author
E. H. (Elias Henry) Jones
1883–1942
Best known for the extraordinary World War I memoir The Road to En-Dor, this Welsh writer lived a life that was as dramatic as his book. He was a civil servant in Burma, a prisoner of war, and an escapee whose true story still feels almost unbelievable.
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The Road to En-Dor Being an Account of How Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won Their Way to Freedom
by E. H. (Elias Henry) Jones
About the author
Born in Aberystwyth in 1883, Elias Henry Jones was the eldest son of the philosopher Sir Henry Jones. He studied at Glasgow High School, the University of Glasgow, the University of Grenoble, and Balliol College, Oxford, then entered the Indian Civil Service and served in Burma.
During the First World War, he joined the Indian Army and was captured after the fall of Kut-el-Amara. He survived the long march to the prisoner-of-war camp at Yozgat in Turkey and, with fellow prisoner C. W. Hill, later escaped. Jones turned that remarkable experience into The Road to En-Dor, the book for which he is best remembered.
After retiring from government service in 1922, he settled in Bangor in north Wales. Sources describe him as active in causes including international peace and Welsh education in the years before his death in 1942.