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Pte. Ernest Leslie Jenner
British Army A Coy. 23rd Btn. London Regiment
from:Keevil
(d.10th November 1915)
Private Ernest Leslie Jenner, son of Frederick William and Emma Matilda Jenner, of Martins Road, Keevil, Trowbridge. At the time of his death he was serving with A Company, 23rd Battalion London Regiment. On the 4 November 1915 the 23rd London Regiment of the 142nd Brigade, 47th Division, were relieved from the front line near Loos in Northern France and moved back to the reserve trenches. From there they moved to Philosophe, Mazingarbe, France.
On the 10th November 1915 a shell landed on one of the billets occupied by C Company, 23rd Battalion London Regiment killing seven men outright including Private Jenner, he was aged 22 years. He is buried in the Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Pas de Calais, France. He is not listed on the War memorial, Keevil, Wiltshire, reason not known. The personalised inscription on his headstone says "Greater Love hath no man than this".
L/Sto. F. J. Jenner
Royal Navy HMS Fortune
(d.1st June 1916)
Leading Stoker Jenner died in the Battle of Jutland and is buried south of the church in the Hvidbjert on AA Churchyard in Denmark.
Pte William Farquhar Jenner
British Army 8th Btn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:67 Northumberland St, Sunderland
(d.7th June 1917)
William Jenner served with the 8th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in WW1. He died 7th of June 1917 aged 20 years and is remembered on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial. Son of George and Mary Ann Jenner of 67 Northumberland St., Sunderland.
Sjt. Albert Charles Jennings
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 2nd Canterbury Btn.
from:Nelson, New Zealand
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Cpl. Arnold Simkin Jennings
British Army 28th General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Malton Yorks.
(d.21st Dec 1918)
Arnold Simkin Jennings, served with the Royal Army Medical Corps, 28th General Hospital and died age 25 on the 21st December 1918. He is buried in Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria.
He was born in Jarrow 1893, the Son of Thomas Simkin and Amy Jennings (nee Rawbone) of Sonnenberg Middlecave Malton Yorks. Arnold Simkin Jennings age 18 Student Boarder is at Bootham School, York on the 1911 census. Arnold was a member of the Surveyor's Institute, London.
Petty Offcr. Charles Jennings
Royal Navy HMS Minotaur
from:Alderney, Channel Islands.
In 1901, Charles Jennings was living in Alderney with his family, on the night of the 31st March, 1901, according to the Channel Island census which was done that night. He was aged 16 years. In the same year Charles Jennings started his naval training on the 9th August 1901. The first training ship Charles started his navy training with, was the Boscawen, the second training ship is unreadable on his service record. The third training ship was Minotaur. On the 7th February 1903 Charles began his 12 years service which he signed up for. Charles remained on HMS Minotaur Charles as an ordinary seaman.
The Duke of Wellington was launched in 1852, and was the flagship of Sir Charles Napier, manning one hundred and thirty one guns. She served in the Portsmouth Dockyard Reserve as a depot ship and was finally sold in 1904. From 8th march 1903 to 15th June 1903 Charles was on HMS Duke of Wellington. From 16th June 1905 to 22nd April 1905, Charles was on HMS Leviathan. Charles went from ordinary seaman to able seaman on the 1st January 1905. From 23rd April 1905 to 9th September 1905, Charles was on HMS Brilliant. From 10th September 1905 to 19th September 1905, he was on HMS Victory I. From 20th September 1905 to 3rd February 1908 Charles was on HMS Jupiter. HMS Jupiter which was a Royal Naval battleship of the Majestic Class. She joined the Commissioned Reserve at Portsmouth in August 1905 and became part of the Home Fleet in 1908.
From 4th February 1908 to 12th February1908, he served on Victory I and from 13th February 1908 to 5th September 1908, on Mercury. The Mercury was built at Pembroke dockyard. Laid down 16th March 1876, Launched 18th April 1878, commissioned into the Royal Navy September 1879. Became a submarine tender in 1905 and between 1914-18, served as a hulk at Chatham, finally sold and scrapped in 1919. Charles served on Excellent from 6th September 1908 to 21 November 1908. Excellent was originally built as the Queen Charlotte at Deptford Dockyard in May 1810 and was a 1st rate ship of the line, 190 feet [57.9 mts.] long by 53 1/2 feet [16.3 mts.] wide. In December 1859, the Queen Charlotte was renamed Excellent when she took over the function from the original Excellent of being the Royal Navy's gunnery training ship, permanently moored in Portsmouth.
Until the establishment of Excellent the Royal Navy did not have any formal system of teaching gunners on its ships the science of gunnery and much was left to individual captains to train their own gun crews. The men who came to Excellent were to be taught: the names of the different parts of a gun and carriage, the disport in terms of lineal magnitude and in degrees how taken, what constitutes point blank and what line of metal range, wind age - the errors and the loss of force attending it, the importance of preserving shot from rust, the theory of the most material effects of different charges of powder applied to practice with a single shot, also with a plurality of balls, showing how these affect accuracy, penetration and splinters, to judge the condition of gunpowder by inspection, to ascertain its quality by the ordinary tests and trials, as well as by actual proof."
Charles served on Victory I from 22nd November 1908 to 20th April 1909 and from 21st April 1909 to 8th May 1910 was on HMS Forte. It is thought that the wreck of a ship of the line near the wreck of the "Princess Irene" is "HMS Forte" a captured French Frigate that was called "La Forte" and renamed in to the Royal Navy. Towards the end of the ninetieth century the frigate was reduced to a coal hulk at Sheerness and was alongside the "Princess Irene" when she blew up. A replica figurehead of "Forte" stands in the Broadway Sheerness and the wreck has recently been moved to within a quarter of a mile of Burntwick Island and is marked by an isolated danger buoy. On the 9th May 1910 it says leave breaking, Charles returned on the 24th May 1910 and there are two further dates (1) from 25th may 1910 to 1st November 1910 and (2) from 9th November to 11th April 1911 but ditto marks under the same ships name HMS Forte. From 12th April 1911 to 7th May 1911 Charles was on HMS Vindictive. From 8th May 1911 to 9th June 1911, he served on Victory I and from 10th June 1911, on HMS Imperious with no to date but it says in the service record P26575/21. Then he returned to the Imperious again but as leading seaman, from 20th February, 1912 to 17th April,1912. The HMS Imperious, Royal Navy armoured cruiser was built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 18th December 1883. She served as flagship to the China Station 1889-1894 and moved to the Pacific Station 1896 -1899. She became a destroyer depot ship at Portland in 1905 and was renamed HMS Sapphire but reverted to HMS Imperious again in 1909. She was finally scrapped on 24th September 1914.
From 18th April, 1912 to 24th March 1912, Charles is on HMS Spartiate and from 25th March 1912, he served on HMS Minotaur as a leading seaman. HMS Minotaur served at the China Station between 1910 and 1914 when Charles was serving on it. The war happened because of the following incident.
On June 28, 1914 a Serbian terrorist named Gavrilo Principe, assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand. The Archduke's assassination triggered the outbreak of World War 1. On July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Because of Austria-Hungary's alliance with Germany, Serbia sought help from Russia. In 1914 Russia vowed to stand behind Serbia, but first Russia gained support from France. Germany declared war on Russia on Aug. 1, 1914, in response to Russia’s mobilization. Two days later Germany declared war on France. The German Army swept into Belgium on its way to France. The invasion of Belgium caused Britain to declare war on Germany on Aug. 4 1914. After the outbreak of world war one, HMS Minotaur escorted Australian troop ships during November 1914. She returned back to Britain for a refit in December 1914.
Charles’ service with the navy should have been completed on 7th February 1915 but he reenlisted and remained on HMS Minotaur from 1st September to 1915 to 29th January1919 as a Petty Officer.
From 30th January 1919 to 12th July 1919 he served on HMS Cumberland as a PO. HMS Cumberland was a 9800 ton armoured cruiser launched in 1902. She was re-commissioned in 1917 and was used to escort Transatlantic convoys from Nova Scotia and New York to the United Kingdom, a duty which occupied her until the end of the First World War. Built London and Glasgow, Glasgow, laid down February 1901, completed December 1904. 5th Cruiser Squadron Atlantic September 1914 Cameroons, captured 10 German merchant ships. January 1915 6th Cruiser Squadron Grand Fleet. 1915 West Indies and North America Station. In 1921 she was sold and from 6th March 1920 to 15th September 1921 he was on HMS Antrim as Petty Officer.
HMS Antrim started her service with the 1st Cruiser Squadron in the Channel Fleet but moved to the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in March 1907. In September the next year, HMS Antrim joined the Atlantic Fleet and then served with the Home Fleet in the 3rd Division at Nore in April 1909. In December 1912 she became flagship to the Rear-Admiral in the 3rd Cruiser Squadron before joining The Grand Fleet in August 1914 and capturing a German merchant ship that same month. She survived a u-boat attack on 9th October and two years later in June she was sent to Archangel before being sent to the American and West Indies Station. HMS Antrim was put into reserve at the Nore in 1919, but was refitted as a wireless and Asdic trials ship and recommissioned in March 1920. She was then used as a Cadet Training Ship in 1922 before being sold for breaking in December 1922.
From the 16th September 1921 to 15th July 1922, Charles was on HMS Renown as PO HMS Renown served with the Grand Fleet in the North Sea during the remaining two years of World War I. In 1920-21, following a refit, she carried the Prince of Wales on a voyage to Australia and America. Sold for Scrap 1948. From 16th July 1922 to 3rd January 1923, Charles was on HMS Victory I as PO. From 4th January 1923 to 21st November 1923 Charles was on board HMS Barham as a PO until 22nd November 1923 when he became a CPO until 12th May 1924. She was commissioned on 25th August 1915. With a weight of 27,500 tons and planned with a top speed of 25 knots. She served in The Grand Fleet during WWI, and at The Battle of Jutland on 31st May 1916 was flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, commanding the Fifth Battle Squadron. In the battle she received six hits and fired 337 15-Inch rounds. In 1916, two of Barhams 6" guns were removed and two 3"/20 Mk I guns added. At Jutland she fired 337 shells and took 5 hits in return. In 1918 she was given aircraft platforms on B and X turrets. From 1920 to 1924 she was part of the Atlantic Fleet, and by 1926 the 3" guns were removed and replaced by four 4" Mk V AA guns she was Torpedoed and sunk on the 25 November 1941 From the 13th May 1924 to 10th June 1924, Charles was back on HMS Victory as CPO. From the 11th June 1924 to 11th March 1925, he was on his last ship. It is very difficult to read the hand writing it looks like HMS Vernon.
Pte. Charles Edward Jennings
British Army Machine Gun Corps
from:Bolton, Lancashire
(d.2nd July 1916)
Pte. Charles Jennings was wounded on 1st July 1916 and died the following day. He was 18 years old and enlisted in October 1914, in the RAMC but was transferred in May 1915 to the 5th London Regiment, Machine Gun Section and was drafted to France in October. Prior to enlisting he was employed in the Weft warehouse at Messrs Mather's Peake's Place Mills in Halliwell, Bolton, Lancashire.
Pte. Clarence Edward Jennings
British Army 71st Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:130 Knighton Lane, Leicester
Clarence Jennings lived at 130 Knighton Lane, Leicester. He joined the army on the 24th of May 1915 as Private 22508 with the RAMC. Je was posted to the 1st Birmingham War Hospital Redal, Birmingham. He applied to serve overseas on the 11th of April 1916 and embarked from Southampton on the 3rd of March 1917, disembarking at Rouen the following day. On the 18th of March 1917 he was posted to 71st Field Ambulance. Clarence returned to England on the 25th March 1919 and was demobilized.
Flt. Cadet. Eric Kingsley Young Jennings
Royal Air Force 48th Training Depot Station
from:Jarrow
(d.18th Aug 1918)
Eric Kingsley Young Jennings was serving as a Flight Cadet with 48th Training Depot Station, Royal Air Force, when he died on 18th August 1918, aged 20. Born in Jarrow in 1898 he was the son of Elizabeth Marion Jennings (nee Cocker) and the late Dr. William Munro Jennings (Surgeon) of Jarrow. Eric Kingsley Young Jennings age 12 at School is recorded as living with his parents Dr. William Munro Jennings and Elizabeth Marion Jennings and family at 16 Croft Terrace, Jarrow on the 1911 census.
Eric is buried in Lincoln (Newport) Cemetery and also commemorated on family grave in Jarrow Cemetery along with His older brother Herbert Lowther Jennings and younger brother Noel Patrick Jennings who both fell during the war.
Pte. George William Jennings
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Little Halling, Bury, Hertfordshire
(d.11th August 1917)
George Jennings was one of four brothers who served during the Great War. He served with the 1st & 2nd Btns. Royal Fusiliers. Only two of the brothers returned home in 1918, both George and his brother Percy died during the Battle of Passchendaele the Third Battle of Ypres. Georges body was never recovered, probably a victim of the Flanders mud during this terrible battle.
Pte. Herbert Lowther Jennings
British Army Army Service Corps
from:Jarrow
(d.13th Feb 1918)
Herbert Lowther Jennings served with the Army Service Corps, he was aged 21 when he died on 13th February 1918. Born in Jarrow in 1896 he was the son of Elizabeth Marion Jennings (nee Cocker) and the late Dr. William Munro Jennings (Surgeon) of Jarrow. Herbert Lowther Jennings age 15 at School is with his parents Dr. William Munro Jennings and Elizabeth Marion Jennings and family at 16 Croft Terrace, Jarrow on the 1911 census. He lived and enlisted in the town.
Herbert, along with his brothers, Eric Kingsley and Noel Patrick Jennings who also fell are remembered in Jarrow Cemetery.
Brig.Gen. Herbert Alexander Kaye Jennings CIE.
British Army Royal Artillery
(d.15th Jan 1921)
Brigadier General Jennings in remembered on the Special Memorial E in the Nicholson Cemetery, Kashmir Gate, Delhi in India.
Pte. James Jennings MM.
British Army 125th Battery Machine Gun Corps
from:Salford, Lancashire
(d.6th September 1917)
James Jennings was formerly with the 8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. His Territorial Force Attestation papers survive. Prior to this he was a Machine Tool Fitter with Charles Churchill Company, Manchester.
James was born 10th of September 1895. The youngest son and 6th of 7 children to James and Martha Jennings,(nee Wroe) of 28 Ventnor St Pendleton. In 1911 James was living at 68 Nora St, Lower Broughton with his widowed mother and older brother Thomas, age 21. His sister Edith (25) is married, Bertha (23) is single, as is Florence (18). Two of his sisters, Elizabeth and Lily died as children.
Thomas later received James' personal effects and Military Medal. Thomas was present at the Third Battle of Ypres. There was heavy fighting at Borry Farm and James was wounded on 1st of September 1917. He was taken from the action by Field Ambulance and rejoined his Company on the 5th. He did not survive his next battle and died at Borry Form on 6th of September 1917, or soon after. His Memorial in Salford denotes him as Wounded and Missing.
He is remembered at the Tyne Cot Memorial near Zonnebeke in Belgium. James was also awarded the 1914 - 1915 Star, British War Medal and Wounded Stripe.
Pte. Martin Jennings
British Army 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards
from:Jarrow
(d.29th Oct 1914)
Martin Jennings was serving with the 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards and was aged 40 when he died on 29th October 1914. Born in Jarrow 1874, he was the son of John and Ann Jennings. Martin Jennings age 37 Blast Furnace Labourer in Shipyard is with his parents John and Ann Jennings and family at 29 Albion Street, Jarrow on the 1911 census.
Martin is buried in Perth Cemetery (China Wall). He is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (west face) Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Pte. Stanley Jennings
British Army 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Hinckley
(d.3rd May 1917)
Stanley Jennings was killed during the Battle of Arras.
Sjt. Thomas Jennings DCM
British Army 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade
from:Hemel Hempstead
(d.27th Mar 1918)
Pte. Walter Charles Jennings
British Army 9th Btn. East Surrey Regiment
from:Bermondsey, London
(d.24th Jun 1917)
Pte. Albert Edward Jennis
British Army 1st Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Norwich
(d.27th July 1915)
Albert Jennis is buried in Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery.
Pte. Charles Edward Jennison
British Army 177th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:Basford, Nottinghamshire
(d.7th Apr 1917)
Gnr. E. Jennison
British Army 150th Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
(d.14th November 1916)
Pte JÃÆ?Ã???rgen Christian Jensen VC
Australian Imperial Force 50th Btn
from:Australia
John H. Jephson
Royal Air Force
(d.22nd Dec 1918)
Clerk 3rd Class John Jephson is buried in the Waterford Protestant Cemetery, Waterford, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
Pte. George William Jepson
British Army 1st Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:Bolsover
(d.23rd July 1917)
George Jepson was the son of William and Alice Jepson of 57 Station Road, Bolsover, Chesterfield and husband of Ada Annie Jepson of 5 Scarsdale Street, Carr Vale, Chesterfield. He enlisted with the Leicestershire Regiment. He was killed in action on 23rd July 1917 aged 37 years, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Pte. James Jepson MM.
British Army 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment
from:Darwen, Lancashire
Private James Jepson was my grandfather. He was born in Darwen, Lancashire on 1st December 1886 and joined the 2nd Essex Regiment in 1904 after both his parents had died and shortly after his elder brother William had joined the 1st Essex Regiment. He never spoke of his military service but I have memories of him mentioning being at Dover Castle and on another occasion asking my father to remove a small piece of shrapnel from his upper lip as the shrapnel was coming out through the skin and snagging his razor while shaving. He was awarded the Military Medal but never mentioned it. His records in the National Archive were lost during the Second World War and there is no mention in regimental records. Pte Jepson was promoted to sergeant then reverted to the rank of private but regimental records give no further details. He was awarded three good conduct stripes and officially injured twice.
On leaving the regiment after the war he was employed as a miner near Leigh in Lancashire before returning to Darwen in 1925 where he worked as a postman until retiring. With special thanks to Ian Hook, curator for the Essex Regimental Museum in Chelmsford, for providing information on my grandfather's regimental service.
Bmndr. Thomas Jepson
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Fenniscowles, Blackburn
My late grandfather Thomas Jepson was treated at Moss Bridge Auxiliary Hospital in Darwen after he was injured at Cambrai on the 5th of September 1918. I knew he had fought in the War but as I was very young when he died I knew nothing of his service during WW1. I have managed to now get hold of some information and I believe he arrived at this hospital from Queen Mary's Military Hospital in Whalley and previously 22nd General Hospital Etaples. I have a photo of him on horseback.
Pte. Lawrence Henry Ching Jermyn
British Army 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Cardiff
(d.14th April 1918)
Victory Medal
Pte. George Henry Jervis
Army 9th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:St. John's Rd., Epping, Essex.
(d.8th Apr 1918)
George died of wounds on the 8th of Apr 1918, he was 19 years old. He is buried at Etaples
Pte. Henry Allen Jervis
British Army 15th Btn. Hampshire Reginment
from:Portsmouth
(d.5th Oct 1916)
Lucy Ellen Jeskins
St John Ambulance Brigade
from:Willesden
Lucy Jeskins served as a Nursing Auxiliary with St John Ambulance Brigade.
Pte. Samuel Jess
British Army 1st Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Ayr
(d.7th Nov 1914)
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