Tom Jones heard about this website in the Pensioners Voice Magazine.
Thomas E Jones was born in the Walton suburb of Liverpool in 1915 during the First World War and went to Gwladys Street Elementary School, in the same road where he lived. On leaving school he took a succession of jobs: at Liverpool, Chester, and Llandudno. During this period he lived at the following addresses: 72 Pemberton Road, Liverpool; High Walls Cottage, Christleton, near Chester; 3 Trinity Ave, Llandudno; and 4 Bodnant Road, Llandudno. After a few no hope jobs I joined the then Liverpool Police, now the Merseyside Police, and served with them throughout the Merseyside Blitz that left the city at a standstill. Then I volunteered for the Commandos, Army Commandos that took me to number 3. Landed in Algeria and when that war finished we took off for Egypt and the Red Sea to train for the Sicily Job. The first landing was a bit of cake, the second was a success but at great cost, including me taken P.O.W. The Germans did not know what to do with two policemen, my mate and I, so they sent us to work on a farm after playfully suggesting that we be sent to join the German Police. At the end of the war we went on a long march over the Alps via the second highest pass, the Tauern Pass, which we opened up that year, the leading elements of the column having to dig through ten feet deep snow. Eventually arriving home under own steam. After the war Tom returned to the Liverpool Police. Tom Jones, 2002
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