William M. Jones
Major William M. Jones was a Canadian soldier of World War I and World War II who served with distinction with the Yugoslav Partisans.
Jones was born in Bear River, Nova Scotia. His code name was "Lawrence of Yugoslavia". In World War I, Jones was wounded three times, losing one eye, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal with Bar. During the Second World War, Major William M. Jones spent 12 months in the Yugoslav Partisan's headquarters in Bosnia. In 1944, 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 Ontario.
