BENJAMIN+G.+JINKS

Jinks, Benjamin George, Private, 23209, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards Disembarked for service 6th November 1915 Born Gretton, Northamptonshire Enlisted Duston, Northamptonshire Killed in action between 14th and 17th September 1916 aged 26 Son of Mrs. Mary Ann Jinks, of The Nook, Gretton, Kettering, Northants. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial

1911 Census An electric tram car cleaner with a light railway company Brother of Robert William Jinks, an electric tram car driver, of 19, Church Street, Swadlincote, Derbyshire

Ashbourne News, 9th February 1917 'Private Benjamin G. Jinks will be remembered as a former member of the Derbyshire Constabulary, stationed at Ashbourne and other places in the Petty Sessional Division. He joined the Grenadier Guards some time after the commencement of the war, and was killed in action in November last. His widowed mother resides at Gretton, near Kettering.'


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