Name
Raymond Jenkins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial
Biography
The Parish Magazine of October 1915 records Raymond as serving in the Grenadier Guards and as ‘indirectly connected to Pirton’. An Alfred Raymond Jenkins from Pirton served, died and is recorded on the Village War Memorial. He also served in the Grenadier Guards, but he has strong connections with Pirton, so the reference to an indirect connection would not seem to apply to this man. No other information has been found to substantiate the existence of a second man with a similar name, but if he existed and was only ‘indirectly connected to Pirton’, then this would not be entirely unexpected. So, at this time, it is not known if two men with similar names existed or whether they are one and the same man.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission.
