Guy Carleton Jones

Major-General G.C. Jones (25 December 1864 – 23 October 1950) was the 4th Canadian Surgeon General.

Biography Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Guy C., son of politician Alfred Gilpin Jones, "was educated at the Halifax Medical College and later King’s College London."

He began his military career in 1896 when he joined the Canadian Militia "as Surgeon-Lieutenant in the 1st Halifax Regiment, Canadian Artillery; and two years later he was transferred to take command of the first bearer company to be formed in Canada." During the Boer War, Jones served "as second-in-command of the 10th Canadian Field Hospital; and afterwards in the Permanent Force he became Principal Medical Officer for the Maritime Provinces." He was detained by enemy forces in 1941 in Italy, to where he had retired with his second wife. He died 23 October 1950, at the age of 85, in Edinburgh, Scotland.