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Elvas Elliott JENKINS

Regimental number200
Place of birthArarat, Victoria
SchoolFairfield State School, Victoria
Other trainingApprenticeship: printers and publishers
ReligionMethodist
OccupationRough carpenter and printer
AddressSorrett Avenue, Malvern, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation26
Height5' 10.5"
Weight158 lbs
Next of kinCapt J Jenkins, Closer Settlement Board, Melbourne, Victoria
Previous military serviceServed in Cadets.
Enlistment date17 September 1914
Place of enlistmentMelbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistmentSapper
Unit name2nd Field Company Engineers
AWM Embarkation Roll number14/21/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A3 Orvieto on 21 October 1914
Rank from Nominal Roll2nd Lieutenant
Unit from Nominal Roll1st Pioneer Battalion
FateDied of wounds 19 July 1916
Place of death or woundingPozieres, Somme Sector, France
Age at death from cemetery records28
Place of burialDantzig Alley British Cemetery (Plot II, Row J, Grave No. 6), Mametz, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
171
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: James Elliott and Bertha Ellen JENKINS, 14 Sorrett Avenue, Malvern, Victoria. Native of Ararat, Victoria
Family/military connectionsBrothers: 10631 Sapper Spencer Elliott JENKINS, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, returned to Australia, 20 December 1918; 21 Sapper Frank Norman Elliott JENKINS, 1st Signal Troop, returned to Australia, 18 December 1915.

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