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JENKINS, William Slater
(Service number 12402)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Accountant
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs E Jenkins (wife), Peel Street, Geraldine, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	6th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	2nd Battalion, F Company
Date	6 May 1916
Transport	Mokoia or Navua
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	14 May 1917	Age	40
Place of Death	France
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine Church Memorial; Geraldine War Memorial

Biographical Notes

William Jenkins was the son of John Henry and Sarah Jenkins (nee Slater), of Hull, England; husband of Emily Mary Jenkins, of Geraldine, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Sources

Cenotaph databse [August 2013]

External Links

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph record

Researched and Written by

Dave Batchelor (South Canterbury Museum)

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