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Lloyd E. Jones

{{Short description|United States Army general (1889–1958)}}

{{Infobox military person

|name= Lloyd E. Jones

|image= Lloyd E. Jones (US Army General) 2.jpg

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|caption= Jones observes troops come ashore on Amchitka Island, May 7, 1943.

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|birth_date= {{Birth date|1889|06|17}}

|birth_place= Columbia, Missouri, US

|death_date= {{death date and age|1958|01|03|1889|06|17}}

|death_place= Columbia, South Carolina, US

|placeofburial= Arlington National Cemetery

|allegiance= United States

|branch= United States Army

|serviceyears= 1911–1946

|servicenumber= 0-3161

|rank= Major General

|unit=

|commands= 10th Mountain Division
Amchitka Task Force, Alaska Defense Command
76th Field Artillery Brigade
1st Battalion, 83rd Field Artillery Regiment
5th Field Artillery Brigade, 5th Division

|battles= World War I
World War II

|awards= Army Distinguished Service Medal

|relations= John Carleton Jones (father)

|laterwork=

}}

Lloyd E. Jones (June 17, 1889 – January 3, 1958) was a United States Army major general. A veteran of World War I, he was prominent during World War II as commander of the Alaska Defense Command's Amchitka Task Force and the 10th Mountain Division.

The son of the president of the University of Missouri, Jones attended the university while teaching school and serving in the Missouri National Guard. He served in the Philippines after receiving his Army commission in 1912. During World War I he was an instructor at two officers’ training camps, organized and temporarily commanded an Artillery brigade, and completed an advanced field artillery course in France. After World War I, Jones graduated from the Command and General Staff College and the Army War College, and served in a variety of command and staff assignments, including professor of military science for the University of Missouri's Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.

During World War II, Jones was promoted to brigadier general and commanded an Artillery brigade before serving in the Aleutian Islands campaign as commander of the defense of Amchitka. From July 1943 to November 1944 he commanded the 10th Mountain Division during its initial organization, training, and preparation for combat. During this command he was promoted to major general. After relinquishing command to George Price Hays, Jones served at the Army War College and Headquarters, Army Ground Forces until retiring in 1946.

In retirement, Jones was a resident of Columbia, South Carolina. He died there on January 3, 1958, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Early life

Lloyd Edmonstone Jones was born in Columbia, Missouri on June 17, 1889.{{sfn|South Carolina, Death Records 1821–1961}} He was the son of Dr. John Carleton Jones (1856–1930), an educator who served as president of the University of Missouri, and Clara Field Thompson Jones (d. July 19, 1936).{{sfn|"Dr. John C. Jones, Retired Head of Missouri U., Dies"}}{{sfn|"Widow of Former Head of U. of Missouri Dies"}}

Jones attended the University of Missouri while teaching school, and received a commission as a second lieutenant in Company G, 4th Regiment of the Missouri National Guard.{{sfn|"Asked to Accompany Troops"}}

He left college in his junior year after passing the examination for a commission in the Army.{{sfn|L. E. Jones in U.S. Army}} He placed fifth of the 225 applicants who took the exam, and his high standing allowed him to choose his branch.{{sfn|L. E. Jones in U.S. Army}}{{sfn|"Army Officer Visits Parents"}} He selected Field Artillery, and was appointed a second lieutenant in the 6th Field Artillery Regiment in December 1911.{{sfn|"Lloyd Jones into the Service"}}

He completed the Field Artillery Officer Course at Fort Leavenworth in 1912, and joined the 5th Field Artillery Regiment at Fort Sill, where he remained until being posted to the Philippines with the 2nd Field Artillery in 1915.{{sfn|"Army Officer Visits Parents"}}{{sfn|"Lloyd E. Jones to Philippines"}}

World War I

By the time of the American entry into World War I, Jones was a captain and served as an instructor at Officers Training Camps at the Presidio of San Francisco and in Leon Springs, Texas.{{sfn|"Dugout Digging Promotes Orgy of Camp Grief"}}{{sfn|"Col. Jones to Washington"}} He then served on the general staff at the War Department.{{sfn|"Col. Jones to Washington"}}

In 1918, Jones was promoted to temporary lieutenant colonel and commanded the 5th Field Artillery Brigade, part of the 5th Division.{{sfn|"Col. Jones to Washington"}} He later served as a senior instructor for the 2nd Field Artillery Brigade at the Camp Jackson, South Carolina Artillery Replacement Training Center.{{sfn|Annual Reports of the War Department}} Jones graduated from the Army Center of Artillery Studies in France, and returned to the United States in July 1919.{{sfn|"An Artillery Unit at M. U."}}{{sfn|"Col. Lloyd Jones Sails"}}

Post-World War I

After the war, Jones reverted to the permanent rank of captain.{{sfn|"Captain L. E. Jones Promoted"}} He was subsequently promoted to major, and his assignments included Professor of Military Science at the University of Missouri.{{sfn|"Officers of R.O.T.C."}} He was also commander of the Field Artillery branch competitive pistol team, which took part in matches against Harvard University, West Point, the University of Oklahoma, and other schools.{{sfn|"Pistol Team to Compete"}}

In 1922, Jones authored a manual on field artillery techniques and procedures, Field Artillery Applied Mathematics.{{sfn|"Maj. Gen. Lloyd E. Jones, 68, Artillery Expert, Dies"}} He later commanded 1st Battalion, 83rd Field Artillery Regiment.{{sfn|Army List and Directory}} Jones was a 1924 graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College, and a 1930 graduate of the Army War College.{{sfn|Official U.S. Army Register 1946}}

Jones served in the plans, operations, and training directorate (G3) on the War Department General Staff from 1930 to 1934.{{sfn|"Dr. John C. Jones, Retired Head of Missouri U., Dies"}}{{sfn|Official U.S. Army Register 1932}} He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on August 1, 1935,{{cite web|url=https://generals.dk/general/Jones/Lloyd_Edmonstone/USA.html|title=Biography of Major General Lloyd Edmonstone Jones (1889−1958), USA|website=generals.dk}} and served on the staff and faculty of the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill from 1935 to 1938.{{sfn|"Maj. Gen. Lloyd E. Jones, 68, Artillery Expert, Dies"}} From 1939 to 1940 he served at the University of Montana as Professor of Military Science and Tactics.

World War II

File:Lloyd E. Jones (US Army General).jpg

In the early years of World War II, Jones, promoted to colonel on September 1, 1940, and he was head of the R.O.T.C. programs in the Army's Seventh Corps Area. In 1940 he was assigned as chief of staff for I Corps.{{sfn|"Col. Lloyd Jones Transferred"}}

Jones was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general on July 10, 1941, and assigned as commander of the 76th Field Artillery Brigade at Fort Warren, Wyoming.{{sfn|"Field Artillery Units at Ft. Warren Being Mobilized"}}

In 1943 he was commander of an Alaska Defense Command task force during the Landing at Amchitka and subsequent defense of the island as the United States retook the Aleutians from the Japanese, for which he received the Army Distinguished Service Medal.{{sfn|"Americans in Amchitka Mud"}}{{sfn|"Gen. Jones Decorated for Aleutians Heroism"}}

From July 1943 to November 1944, Jones, promoted to the temporary rank of major general on September 15, 1943,{{sfn|"Lloyd E. Jones made Major General"}} was commander of the 10th Infantry Division.{{sfn|"Heroes of Attu Head New Alpine Force"}} He was the division's first commander, and oversaw its initial organization and training in winter and high altitude operations at Camp Hale, Colorado prior to its departure for combat in Europe.{{sfn|US 10th Mountain Division in World War II}}

When Jones fell ill with bronchitis, he was replaced as division commander by Brigadier General George P. Hays.{{sfn|US 10th Mountain Division in World War II}} For the rest of the war, Jones performed duty at the Army War College and at Headquarters, Army Ground Forces. He retired for disability on April 30, 1946.{{sfn|"Maj. Gen. Lloyd E. Jones, 68, Artillery Expert, Dies"}}{{sfn|Official U.S. Army Register 1947}}

Death and burial

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Jones died in Columbia, South Carolina on January 3, 1958.{{sfn|South Carolina, Death Records 1821–1961}}{{sfn|Artillery Expert Dies at 68}} He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section 30, Site 726.{{sfn|Arlington National Cemetery}}

Family

In 1919, Jones married Elizabeth Heriot Rembert (1900–1978).{{sfn|"Col. Lloyd Jones Sails"}} They were the parents of three children: John Carleton (a World War II veteran and Baltimore Sun reporter);{{sfn|"Carleton Jones, Age 84"}} Lloyd E. Jr. (a career Army officer); and daughter Anne.{{sfn|"Maj. Gen. Lloyd E. Jones, 68, Artillery Expert, Dies"}}

Legacy

In 1964 the newly constructed Army Reserve Center in Columbia, Missouri was named for him.{{sfn|"New Reserve Center Opens"}}

In March 2013, the 10th Mountain Division's Range Operations Center at Fort Drum was named for him.{{sfn|Fort Drum Officials}}

References

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Sources

=Internet=

  • {{cite web |url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2008-01-05/news/0801050044_1_carleton-jones-sun-maryland-history |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118101205/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2008-01-05/news/0801050044_1_carleton-jones-sun-maryland-history |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 18, 2016 |last=Rasmussen |first=Frederick N. |title=Carleton Jones, Age 84: Former Sunday Sun reporter, author and critic was known for stylish writing and love of Maryland history. |date=January 5, 2008 |website=Baltimore Sun |location=Baltimore, MD |ref={{sfnRef|"Carleton Jones, Age 84"}}}}
  • {{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com |title=South Carolina, Death Records 1821–1961, entry for Lloyd E. Jones |website=Ancestry.com |publisher=Ancestry.com LLC |location=Provo, UT |access-date=November 16, 2016 |url-access=subscription |ref={{sfnRef|South Carolina, Death Records 1821–1961}}}}
  • {{cite web |last=U.S. Department of the Army |url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgVqb25lcxIFbGxveWQaAWU-/ |title=Burial Record: Jones, Lloyd E |website=ANC Explorer|publisher=Arlington National Cemetery |location=Arlington, VA |access-date=November 14, 2016 |ref={{sfnRef|Arlington National Cemetery}}}}
  • {{cite web |last=Ayyad |first=Osama |url=https://www.army.mil/article/144873/Fort_Drum_officials_honor_division_s_first_commander |title=Fort Drum officials honor division's first commander |website=Army.mil |publisher=US Army |location=Washington, DC |date=March 19, 2015 |ref={{sfnRef|Fort Drum Officials}}}}

=Newspapers=

  • {{cite news |date=March 10, 1911 |title=Asked to Accompany Troops: Lieutenant Lloyd Jones will not go to Texas Maneuvers, However |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbia-missourian-accompany/153754835/ |newspaper=The Evening Missourian |location=Columbia, MO |page=1 |ref={{sfnRef|"Asked to Accompany Troops"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=December 1, 1911 |title=L. E. Jones in U.S. Army: Successful Examination by Son of University Dean |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbia-missourian/35821128/ |newspaper=The Evening Missourian |location=Columbia, MO |page=1 |ref={{sfnRef|L. E. Jones in U.S. Army}} }}
  • {{cite news |date=January 25, 1912 |title=Lloyd Jones into the Service |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbia-missourian-service/153754988/ |newspaper=The Evening Missourian |location=Columbia, MO |page=1 |ref={{sfnRef|"Lloyd Jones into the Service"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=September 3, 1915 |title=Lloyd E. Jones to Philippines |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbia-missourian/35820235/ |newspaper=The Evening Missourian |location=Columbia, MO |page=1 |ref={{sfnRef|"Lloyd E. Jones to Philippines"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=September 24, 1915 |title=Army Officer Visits Parents: Lieutenant L. E. Jones to Leave for Post in Philippines October 5 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbia-missourian-parents/153755127/ |newspaper=The Evening Missourian |location=Columbia, MO |page=3 |ref={{sfnRef|"Army Officer Visits Parents"}}}}
  • {{cite news |last=Shanedling |first=Joshua |date=October 16, 1917 |title=Dugout Digging Promotes Orgy of Camp Grief |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-francisco-chronicle-digging/153755251/ |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |location=San Francisco, CA |page=6 |ref={{sfnRef|"Dugout Digging Promotes Orgy of Camp Grief"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=November 16, 1918 |title=Col. Jones to Washington |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbia-missourian-washington/153755336/ |newspaper=The Evening Missourian |location=Columbia, MO |page=4 |ref={{sfnRef|"Col. Jones to Washington"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=May 25, 1919 |title=Col. Lloyd Jones Sails: His Bride, Formerly Miss Rembert, Returns Soon to Columbia |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-state-sails/153755660/ |newspaper=The State |location=Columbia, SC |page=14 |ref={{sfnRef|"Col. Lloyd Jones Sails"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=August 13, 1919 |title=An Artillery Unit at M. U. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-weekly-kansas-city-star-artillery/153755753/ |newspaper=Kansas City Star |location=Kansas City, MO |page=2 MO |ref={{sfnRef|"An Artillery Unit at M. U."}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=November 1, 1920 |title=Captain L. E. Jones Promoted |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbia-missourian/35818643/ |newspaper=The Evening Missourian |location=Columbia, MO |page=1 |ref={{sfnRef|"Captain L. E. Jones Promoted"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=March 28, 1921 |title=Pistol Team to Compete |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbia-missourian/10890012/ |newspaper=The Evening Missourian |location=Columbia, MO |page=5 |ref={{sfnRef|"Pistol Team to Compete"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=August 19, 1922 |title=Officers of R.O.T.C.: Appointments for 1922–23 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbia-missourian-officers/153755969/ |newspaper=The Evening Missourian |location=Columbia, MO |page=1 |ref={{sfnRef|"Officers of R.O.T.C."}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=April 22, 1930 |title=Dr. John C. Jones, Retired Head of Missouri U., Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-retired/153756047/ |newspaper=The Post-Dispatch |location=St. Louis, MO |page=10 |ref={{sfnRef|"Dr. John C. Jones, Retired Head of Missouri U., Dies"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=July 20, 1936 |title=Widow of Former Head of U. of Missouri Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-widow/153756116/ |newspaper=The Post-Dispatch |location=St. Louis, MO |page=19 |ref={{sfnRef|"Widow of Former Head of U. of Missouri Dies"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=October 17, 1940 |agency=Associated Press |title=Col. Lloyd Jones Transferred |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-transferred/153756201/ |newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |location=St. Louis, MO |page=11 |ref={{sfnRef|"Col. Lloyd Jones Transferred"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=December 8, 1941 |agency=Associated Press |title=Field Artillery Units at Ft. Warren Being Mobilized |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-independent-record-warren/153756252/ |newspaper=The Independent Record |location=Helena, MT |page=3 |ref={{sfnRef|"Field Artillery Units at Ft. Warren Being Mobilized"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=May 12, 1943 |title=Americans in Amchitka Mud Sweat Out Great Chapter of Ingenuity |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-circleville-herald-sweat/153756333/ |newspaper=Circleville Herald |location=Circleville, OH |page=1 |ref={{sfnRef|"Americans in Amchitka Mud"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=July 16, 1943 |agency=International News Service |title=Heroes of Attu Head New Alpine Force |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune-alpine/153756426/ |newspaper=Salt Lake Tribune |location=Salt Lake City, UT |page=4 |ref={{sfnRef|"Heroes of Attu Head New Alpine Force"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=August 6, 1943 |agency=Associated Press |title=Gen. Jones Decorated for Aleutians Heroism |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/greeley-daily-tribune-decorated/153756478/ |newspaper=Greeley Daily Tribune |location=Greeley, CO |page=1 |ref={{sfnRef|"Gen. Jones Decorated for Aleutians Heroism"}}}}
  • {{cite news |date=October 3, 1943 |title=Lloyd E. Jones made Major General |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean-jones/153756549/ |newspaper=The Tennessean |location=Nashville, TN |page=49 |ref={{sfnRef|"Lloyd E. Jones made Major General"}}}}
  • {{cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=January 4, 1958 |title=Maj. Gen. Lloyd E. Jones, 68, Artillery Expert, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-obituary-for-lloyd-e/153756635/ |newspaper=Baltimore Sun |location=Baltimore, MD |page=8 |ref={{sfnRef|"Maj. Gen. Lloyd E. Jones, 68, Artillery Expert, Dies"}}}}
  • {{cite news |agency=United Press International |date=January 5, 1958 |title=Artillery Expert Dies at 68 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sunday-news-and-tribune-expert/153756699/ |newspaper=News and Tribune |location=Jefferson City, MO |page=17 |ref={{sfnRef|Artillery Expert Dies at 68}}}}
  • {{cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=June 1, 1964 |title=New Reserve Center Opens |url= https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-greenville-news-reserve/153756759/ |newspaper=Greenville News |location=Greenville, SC |page=8 |ref={{sfnRef|"New Reserve Center Opens"}}}}

=Books=

  • {{cite book |last=U.S. Secretary of War |date=1919 |title=Annual Reports of the War Department |volume=1 |issue=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z586AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA5187 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=US Government Printing Office |page=5187 |ref={{sfnRef|Annual Reports of the War Department}}}}
  • {{cite book |last=US Army Adjutant General |date=1929 |title=Army List and Directory |url=https://archive.org/stream/officersofarmy18adju#page/n33/mode/2up |location=Washington, DC |publisher=US Government Printing Office |page=23|ref={{sfnRef|Army List and Directory}}}}
  • {{cite book |last=US Army Adjutant General |date=1932 |title=Official U.S. Army Register |url=http://www.genealogybank.com |location=Washington, DC |publisher=US Government Printing Office |url-access=subscription |via=GenealogyBank.com|page=359 |ref={{sfnRef|Official U.S. Army Register 1932}}}}
  • {{cite book |last=US Army Adjutant General |date=1946 |title=Official U.S. Army Register |url=https://archive.org/stream/officialarmyregi1946unit#page/364/mode/2up |location=Washington, DC |publisher=US Government Printing Office |page=364 |ref={{sfnRef|Official U.S. Army Register 1946}}}}
  • {{cite book |last=US Army Adjutant General |date=1947 |title=Official U.S. Army Register |url=https://www.fold3.com/image/ |location=Washington, DC |publisher=US Government Printing Office |via=Fold3.com |pages=1966, 1468 |url-access=subscription |ref={{sfnRef|Official U.S. Army Register 1947}}}}
  • {{cite book |last=Rottman |first=Gordon L. |date=2012 |title=US 10th Mountain Division in World War II |url=http://www.sulleormedeinostripadri.it/images/Libri%20download/10a%20Divisione%20Montagna%20WWII.pdf |location=Oxford, UK |publisher=Osprey Publishing |page=24 |ref={{sfnRef|US 10th Mountain Division in World War II}}}}

External links

  • [https://generals.dk/general/Jones/Lloyd_Edmonstone/USA.html Generals of World War II]

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