JENKINS, John Alexander Whitmore
| Service Number: | 4247 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 September 1915, Warwick Farm, Sydney |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 54th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Alexandria, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | George St Redfern Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia, |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | Illness, Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 9 August 1974 |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales Plot 16, Zone D, Grave 4082 |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4247, 1st Infantry Battalion, Warwick Farm, Sydney | |
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| 20 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 4247, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney | |
| 20 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 4247, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, 54th Infantry Battalion | |
| 1 Mar 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 54th Infantry Battalion | |
| 24 May 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 54th Infantry Battalion | |
| 20 Jul 1916: | Imprisoned Interned at Langensalza in Germany | |
| 20 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 4247, 54th Infantry Battalion, Wounds to left shoulder from grenade | |
| 18 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 54th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
John Alexander Whitmore (Jack) JENKINS was born in Sydney in 1894
His parents were John Alexander JENKINS & Sophia WHITMORE who married in Sydney in 1888
He enlisted in Warwick Farm, Sydney on 20th September, 1915 and embarked with the 1st Infantry Battalion, 13th reinforcements on the HMAT Aeneas on 20th December, 1915
He was wounded in France on 20th July, 1916 with injuries to his left shoulder from a grenade and then captured by the enemy and interned at Langensalza in Germany when he was being treated for his wounds. He spent about two years as a Prisoner of War in a POW camp near Kassel. He was later sent to Holland for internment and returned to Australia on 3rd March, 1919 and discharged on 18th June, 1919
He married Ada BENNETT in Sydney in 1921
John died in Sydney at the Repatriation General Hospital in Concord & is buried in the Rookwood Cemetery, Plot 16, Zone D, Grave 4082
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His brother George Eastbourne Molyneaux JENKINS (SN 6628) also served during WW1 and was Killed in Action in France on 17th April, 1918
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