Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Wesley James Jenkins
In memory of:
Private Wesley James Jenkins
February 22, 1917
Military Service
802590
Army
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
18th Bn.
Additional Information
May 22, 1895
Son of William and Theresa Jenkins, of 1, Marmora St., London, Ontario.
Commemorated on Page 263 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
IV. D. 23.
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Attestation papers – Attestation paper, page 1. Contributed by E.Edwards www.18thbattalioncef.wordpress.com -
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Attestation papers – Attestation paper, page 2. Contributed by E.Edwards www.18thbattalioncef.wordpress.com -
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Newspaper Clipping – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of Wesley James Jenkins – Pte Welsey Jame4s Jenkins 18th Btn - from the December 1918 edition of The Christmas Echo published in London Ontario. ---And in the Morning -
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Newspaper clipping – From the London Free Press March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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