[1] After the war, he served for a time as Lord Curzon's secretary on the Foreign Office Middle East Committee, before returning to Burma.

The pair spent over a year conning the camp's commandant with promises of a buried treasure, aided by "clues" hidden by Jones and Hill.

Eventually they persuaded their Turkish captors they were insane, including attempting suicide by hanging, and, after being moved to a hospital for the mentally ill in the summer of 1918, the two men played their roles as lunatics so successfully they also fooled the doctors and were returned home.

[2] After returning to England, he wrote about the escape in The Road to En-Dor: Being an Account of How Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won Their Way to Freedom, published in 1919.

[5] In 2021, American author Margalit Fox published The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History, a retelling of the events described in Jones's memoir with additional context and research.