E. H. Jones (author)

Lieutenant Elias Henry Jones (21 September 1883 - 22 December 1942) was a Welsh officer in the Indian Army who, together with Australian C. W. Hill, escaped from the Yozgad prisoner of war camp in Turkey during World War I. Their epic story was told in the book The Road to En-dor.

Eldest son of Sir Henry Jones. He was educated at Glasgow High School, Glasgow University, the University of Grenoble and Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained an M.A. After being called to the Bar, he passed the Indian Civil Service administrative grade examinations, and in 1905 went on to serve in Burma. He married in 1913.

He retired in 1922 as Financial Commissioner and settled in Bangor, North Wales.

In 1933 he was appointed registrar of the University College of North Wales, a post which he held until his death on 22 December 1942.

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 the 22 September 1915 and served in Mesopotamia before he was taken prisoner by the Turks after the fall of Kut-el-Amara in 1916. He then survived a march of 700 miles to Yozgad, during which one in every seven of the prisoners died. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 September 1916.

Between February 1917 and October 1918, Jones and Hill convinced their Turkish captors that they were mediums adept at the Ouija board. Eventually they secured their repatriation to Britain by faking insanity. Ironically, they arrived home only a few months before their brother officers were released from Yozgad.

A film adaptation of The Road to En-dor is in development, written by Neil Gaiman and Penn Jillette, and produced by E. H. Jones's granddaughter Hilary Bevan Jones.