NAM.2025-02-4-1

Inventory description: Manuscript letters and diaries of 2/Lt Elias Henry Jones, Volunteer Artillery Battery (Rangoon Contingent) and Indian Expeditionary Force, 1915-1918, covering his time as a prisoner of war in Yozgad [Yozgat/Yuzgat] camp, Turkey, and his escape plan involving the use of a Ouija Board to conduct fake séances (as detailed in his published book ‘The Road to En-Dor’). Consisting of diary entries covering his capture after the Siege of Kut and death march to the POW camp, notebooks with First World War recollections written whilst in Yozgad camp, séance diaries, and encrypted letters written by 2/Lt Jones to his family back home; together with a book written by his grandson containing contextual information, typed transcripts, and decoded explanations of 2/Lt Jones’ encrypted letters.