Name
Edward Harry Jenkins
1 August 1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/08/1916
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
22540
Somerset Light Infantry
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
VIII. D. 42A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
WE LOVED HIM IN LIFE IN DEATH LET US NOT FORGET HIM
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials,
Bath War Memorial, Somerset
Pre War
Edward Harry Jenkins was born in Bishop's Stortford on 1 August 1890 to John and Fanny Jenkins, and baptised on 27 August 1890 at St Michael's, Bishop's Stortford. On the 1901 Census the family were living at Chantry Road, Bishop's Stortford, where his father was a watchmaker. He was the youngest of five children. His father died and on the 1911 Census, Edward was living with his widowed mother and sister at 2 Pultney Gardens, Bath and he was working as a Shorthand Typist.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bath and served with the Somerset Light Infantry. He died from gas poisoning (according to the Register of Soldiers' Effects and pension records). He is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery which was used by several casualty clearing stations as it was close to the Front and the Ypres Battlefields, but out of the extreme range of most of the German field artillery.
Additional Information
His mother Fanny received a war gratuity of £3 pay owing of £1 12s 5d. His brother Walter also received a share amounting to £10s 10d. His mother also received a pension of 8 shillings and 6 pence a week.
His mother, Mrs F H Jenkins, 8 Prior Park Cottages, Prior Park Road, Bath ordered the headstone inscription: "WE LOVED HIM IN LIFE IN DEATH LET US NOT FORGET HIM".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
