George Herbert Jenkins

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First Name:

George

Middle Name:

Herbert

Last Name:

Jenkins

Date of Birth:

Thursday, January 1, 1891

Mother's Name:

Elizabeth Jenkins

Father's Name:

James Jenkins

Date Enlisted:

Tuesday, January 2, 1917

Rank at Enlistment:

Private

Rank at Discharge:

Private

Unit:

54th Battalion

Service:

Infantry

Awards:

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Details:

George Jenkins (Service no 3402) was born in Wollongong, N.S.W.

He married Winifred Chadban in Wollongong in early 1916.

At enlistment George was 22 years old, employed as a fireman and lived at Corrimal, N.S.W. He had carried out 3 years service in the C.M.F.

He embarked from Sydney on HMAT A68 Anchises with 9th Reinforcements, 54th Battalion on 24th January 1917. The troops arrived in England on 27th March 1917 and George joined 54th Battalion in France on 22nd November 1917.

George saw service on the Western Front until 1st September 1918 when he was wounded in action and evacuated to hospital in England for treatment of a gun shot wound to his right thigh.

He was returned to Australia in June 1919 and discharged frim the AIF on 16th September 1919.

Sources:

NAA: B2455, JENKINS GEORGE HERBERT