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Military service
Service number:
806
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Birth:
August 13, 1885
Death:
April 10, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 58
Additional information
Son of John Jennings, of "West View," Holloway, London, England, and Ellen Eliza Jennings. His brother Sidney also served in the same regiment.
Digital gallery of Private Edward Stanley Jennings
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Panel
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - October 2009 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 20, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y112uvic#mode/1up -
Photo of Edward Stanley Jennings
Reverse of Pte E. S. (Ted) Jennings of Bethune, Saskatchewan (originally homestead on SE 24-21-25 W2, just east of Findlater, SK). His brother, #877 Pte S.H. Jennings witnessed his death: "My brother Ted said to me, 'You make the tea, and I'll stand lookout for you.' A few minutes later he fell down against me, dead, after having been hit in the head by an exploding bullet. After dark we buried him behind the trench" * *fr Regimental Archives and cited in "With the Patricia's in Flanders 1914-1918 Then & Now" by Stephen K. Newman. Newman's book also has a picture of Pte. E.S. (Ted) Jennings. -
Photo of Edward Stanley Jennings
Obverse of Pte E. S. (Ted) Jennings of Bethune, Saskatchewan (originally homestead on SE 24-21-25 W2, just east of Findlater, SK). His brother, #877 Pte S.H. Jennings witnessed his death: "My brother Ted said to me, 'You make the tea, and I'll stand lookout for you.' A few minutes later he fell down against me, dead, after having been hit in the head by an exploding bullet. After dark we buried him behind the trench" * *fr Regimental Archives and cited in "With the Patricia's in Flanders 1914-1918 Then & Now" by Stephen K. Newman. Newman's book also has a picture of Pte. E.S. (Ted) Jennings.
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Stanley Jennings
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Stanley Jennings
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Stanley Jennings
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Stanley Jennings
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Stanley Jennings
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Stanley Jennings
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Stanley Jennings
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 21 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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