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244188Pte. George Edward Jenkins
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Scots
from:Bradford, Manchester
(d.22nd August 1916)
My great uncle, George Jenkins served in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots and was fatally wounded on the Somme battlefields. He died in hospital in Boulogne on 22nd of August 1916 aged 18 years and is buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery but I am not sure in which battle or incident he sustained his injuries. My father believes from conversations with his in-laws that he was not hospitalised for too long and that it may have been a sniper shot outside of a main battle event. I know that his mother received notification that he was hospitalised and began packing to travel to him but of course that was not possible. I believe she went to the grave with Alice my great aunt at the earliest opportunity after the war and they returned every year before her death. He was their only son and I am told she went to bed for a year.His memory lives on, we have a beautiful oval gilt-framed sepia picture of him in uniform that hung in my great aunt's bedroom until she passed. I have his medals, pictures and the entry of death posted in the Manchester paper by my great grandfather and grandmother and his sisters. (my great aunt and grandma)
My wife and I went to Boulogne in 2012 and found his grave. The last visit prior to ours was about 1969 when I went with my parents, great aunt and grandma. We are off to France again in November 2017 to visit the battlefields and his grave at Boulogne. George was greatly loved.
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