[1] Jones was the commander of an ambulance service which served the French Army during World War I.
In 1925, he headed a team assisting in the flood relief for Newton, Georgia and organised an anti-typhoid immunisation program.
Three years later, following a hurricane in Florida, he was appointed sanitation adviser to West Palm Beach.
[2] On 1 August 1942, the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Michigan, was renamed the Percy L. Jones General Hospital for casualties of war.
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