Frederick Robert Jenkins

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Frederick Robert Jenkins was born in Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 18 May 1899 the son of Henry J. Jenkins and Ellen Jenkins (nee Coombs).  He lived his early life at Smith's Hole, Fontmell Magna.  According to the Fontmell Magna Roll of Honour he served with the Dorsetshire Regiment though a later record shows him transferred to the Machine Gun Corps as a Private (Service No. 137878). On his discharge on 8 Mar 1919 he was awarded the Victory and British War Medals. The 1921 Census shows him back living with his parents in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, working as a Farm Carter.   His marriage to Evelyn Mary Whitmarsh was recorded at the Blandford, Dorset, Registry in 1922.  By the time of the 1939 Register he had moved to 26 Langton Road, Blandford, Dorset, working as a Driver of a Commercial Goods Vehicle.  He died in Blandford, Dorset, on 25 Feb 1984. His name also appears on the Fontmell Magna Roll of Honour.