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Surname |
Forename/s |
Rank |
Service Number |
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JENKINSON |
Matthew Crompton |
Sapper |
188916 |
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Place of birth |
Age |
Regiment / Ship |
Date of death |
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Filey |
22 |
Rail Operating Division, Royal Engineers |
Sun. 1st Dec. 1917 |
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Last known military action |
Location of death |
Cause of death |
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Filey |
Illness contracted whilst in the field |
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Cemetery/ Memorial |
Plot/Plaque |
Country |
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St. Oswalds churchyard |
Old ground (SE Corner) |
England |
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Known family |
Family details |
Town of origin |
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M. Crompton Jenkinson (Father) & Emma Jenkinson (Mother) |
Family resided at 4, Chapel Yard |
Filey |
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Decorations |
UK memorials commemorated on |
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Filey town memorial, St. Oswalds church memorial |
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Notes |
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Died at home. Had previously been in France for 16 months before coming home for 14 days leave. He had been unwell before leaving France, and was taken to bed as soon he reached Filey. Within a week he had succumbed to his illness, meningitis and consumption, and for the last 24 hours was unconscious. He died at 6.15pm Saturday 1st December. He was born in September 1895, and was a fisherman along with his father. An elder brother had died of consumption several years earlier. He is mentioned in the Scarborough Mercury (Filey news) on 7th December 1917. | ||||
