Parents	Names	Home	Parents
Robert Andre Jones b 28 May 1921 d 14 June 1964			Enys Roberts b 5 December 1923 d 5 November 1993
Married - 12 January 1946 The Tabernacle Methodist Church, Conway, North Wales

Children:

Robert was born at Rue des Haut Champs, Coulogne, Calais to Edward William Jones and Madeleine Eugenie Marie Quevilly. His birth was registered with the British Vice Consultate at Calais on 30th May 1921 and with the Commune de Coulogne, Pas de Calais.
Acte de Naissance

Communion - 5 Mai 1932	Robert with his parents circa 1928
Carde Territorale circa 1939	British Army circa 1945

He appears to have had a happy childhood and there are many photographs of him with his family growing up in France. He was brought up a Catholic and was confirmed on 5 May 1932 in Pensionnat St Pierre, Calais. His 1943 diary records his visit to Tripoli Cathedral on 11th July and "went to church at camp" on 26th September. However the religious denomination given on his Solder's Service Book was "Methodist"

Robert attended the Ecole Primaire Superieure de Commerce at Nogent-sur-Marne until 1939. On the outbreak of war he joined the Carde Territoriale until 11th June 1940 when he left Paris to travel to Bordeaux with his parents. He lived in Lys near Pau from July 1940 until January 1941 when he joined the French Army for service in North Africa. He trained at the Pont de Clay near Genoble until June 1941 when he was sent to El Aonina, Tunisia to join the French Air Force. Because of his English surname he was unpopular with his comrades and suspected by the German Authorities of being a British Agent and he was interrogated in October 1942 at the headquarters of the Air Tunisie at Tunis. On 2nd November 1942 he was transferred to Setif by French Intelligence officers "for safety to be out of the way" as the German Armistice Commision never went to Setif. In November 1942 the Allies occupied North Africa and in January 1943 he volunteered for parachute service in Algiers. After being refused permission to join the British Army he travelled to Kairouan to join the Free French forces. He again applied to join the British Army and to aid his application, was officially discharged from the Free French. In October 1943 he was interviewed in Tripoli and told he would be more useful if he consented to be sent back to France. He left Algiers by plane on 24th October and went to London (via Rabat and Gibraltar) to be interviewed by Major Western, Room 900 of the War Office. During the week ending 28/11/1943 he was in training at No. 5 St James Street and received further training in North London. (Source: Royal Patriotic School transcript of interview dated 28/11/1943). NB Room 900 was an address for I.S.L.D. (Inter-Services Liaison Department) which was a cover name for MI6 but it is thought likely that he joined MI9 Escape and Evasion Organisation. He entered the UK at Whitchurch Airport on 6th November 1943 and was described as 6'5" with hazel eyes. His 1943 diary documents some of the above but the pages from 26th November 1943 to 3rd December, and from 10th December to 31st December 1943 have been cut out.

The full nature of his work with MI6 is not known, but it is believed he was instrumental in arranging for the repatriation of escaped POW's from France. A document dated 29th July 1944 entitles the bearer "Mr David Roberts" to proceed from Gibraltar to the UK. In September 1944, his work for MI6 came to an end and he was finally allowed to enlist in the British Army. He applied to join the intelligence services but was not allowed as his mother was a foreign national. Likewise his application to join the Metropolitan Police was refused. He enlisted with the Royal Army Educational Corps in December 1944 at Bury St Edmunds and was discharged on 29th May 1953.

Anglesey 1940 Land Army	Enys and Olwen in Cymmo
1925 Cymmo	1925

Enys was born to John Roberts and Margaret Gwendoline Davies in Cymmo farm, Rhewl near Llantysilio, North Wales.
Cymmo circa 1934. Cymmo 2002.
Although she had only one sister and one brother (in fact an adopted cousin), her father came from a large family and she had very many cousins in the area. She attended Llantysilio School and can be seen here 4th from right, 2nd row from front. She was brought up to speak both Welsh and English and attended Llangollen grammer school. During her teenage years her family moved from Cymmo to Twthill farm, in Conway on the coast of North Wales where she transferred to a school in Llandudno for matricularion. In 1940 she began working for the Inland Revenue but when she was eighteen WW2 began and she joined the Womens' Land Army working briefly in Anglesey. After returning to Conway she continued to work on a dairy farm and was responsible for milk delivery to the army camp where she met Sergeant Robert Jones.

Top: Robert Jones, Enys Roberts, Arthur Jones, John Roberts

Front: Bessie Lloyd, Margaret Rogers, Ian Roberts (Jones), Margaret Roberts, Gwendoline Rogers

Robert and Enys were married on 12th January 1946 after a short courtship while Robert was stationed in Conway and they honeymooned in Torquay.

Robert, Enys, and their daughters

After leaving the army, Robert worked for John Holts as an accountant and in 1952 the family moved to Kano, Nigeria. Following the birth of their youngest daughter in North Wales, they returned to Africa in 1953 to Douala, Cameroon . In 1957 they were in Lagos, Nigeria and by 1960 the family lived in Ibadan. Prior to Independance in Nigeria the family returned to England but after a short while Robert - working this time for Unilever - returned to Cameroon alone. He drowned in Bota near Tiko, Cameroon on 14th June 1964 aged 44 and is buried in the European cemetary in Tiko.
Photo of Grave. The inscription reads:
In Loving Memory of Robert Andrew Jones. Accidentally drowned in Victoria on 14 June 1964
Death Certificate

Enys Jones - December 1981

Following the death of her husband, Enys studied and qualified as a teacher at Brentwood Teacher Training College, Essex, in the late 1960's and subsequently taught in Gidea Park Infants School. On retirement she emmigrated to Canada in December 1981 where she lived in Sundre, Alberta until her death in 1993 aged 69.
In memory

Enys with her grandson Lawrence - 1986