Name
Thomas William Jenkins
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/10/1917
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
614552
Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force)
2nd/1st (Warwick) Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY
I.E.16
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
LOVE
UK & Other Memorials
St Katherine’s Church Memorial, Ickleford, Not on the Walsworth memorials
Pre War
Thomas William Jenkins was born in 1890 in Walsworth, Hitchin, son of Arthur and Sarah Jenkins and one of seven children.
On the 1891 and 1901 Censuses the family were living in Walsworth and his father was a railway worker. They had moved to Hitchin in 1911 and were living at 14 King's Road but Thomas was not at the family home.
He married Margaret Maud Chamberlain Cox in Hitchin in 1912. She lived in Ickleford and was a teacher. (After the death of Thomas her address on pension records her address as Carrington Buildings, Mayfair, London, and later Orchard Cottage, Ickleford, Hitchin, Herts.).
His parents later lived at Mill Hill, London.
Wartime Service
Thomas enlisted at Igtham Camp and served with the Territorial Force of the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery as a Gunner.
He died on 16 October 1917 from wounds received in action and is buried at Duhallow A D S Cemetery, Belgium.
Additional Information
His widow Margaret received a war gratuity of £5 10s and pay owing of £ 7 16s 5d. She also received a pension of 13s 9d a week.
His widow remarried in Brentford in 1919 to Sydney Jones.
Probate was granted on 7 January 1920 to Margaret Maud Chamberlain Jones (wife of Sydney Jones). Effects £260.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Brenda Palmer
