Private Francis Leonard Jenkinson

Army Number : 23918

Battalion : 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Clowne and lived at High Street, Clowne, Derbyshire. Son of Selena Jenkinson, of 16, Mill Street, Clowne; Husband of Mabel Tomlinson (formerly Jenkinson), of 61, North Road, Clowne, Chesterfield. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Chesterfield. He was killed in action, 16th September 1916, age 27. during the attack on the German positions at Guillemont, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Francis Leonard Jenkinson is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
Clowne War Memorial, Clowne, Derbyshire.

His brother Private Reginald Jenkinson, 10th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), also fell in the Great War.