Elsie Muriel Jones

[1] After completing her midwifery qualifications Jones joined the Australian Inland Mission, under the leadership of John Flynn, and it was originally planned that she would be serving at Maranboy Hospital, near Barunga, where there was an outbreak of malaria.

[1] Despite the hospital reopening Jones and her husband decided to travel with the children, all boys, when they were transferred to The Bungalow in Alice Springs where they were in charge.

The couple left the Bungalow at the end of 1936 when they needed to travel to Victoria for many months to allow their children to be treated for trachoma.

[1][6] In 1937 Jones accepted a position at the Channel Island Leprosarium, where her husband would also work, and part of the motivation for doing so was that trachoma was less severe in this region.

In this role she was greatly respected and loved by many of the patients and former residents, such as Mercia Butler, had fond memories of her there; including of the flowers she grew.

She left Darwin by train on 24 February 1942 to Tennant Creek where she stayed on a nearby cattle station Rockhampton Downs.