HENRY Howard JENKINS b1897 Great War veteran??? (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Sunday, January 19, 2014, 16:21 (3955 days ago) @ Jefff

Using Ancestry's free search pages for the Army Medal Cards (the first port of call for searching WW1 soldiers) shows no obvious Henry Howard Jenkins, which was unlikely anyhow, but they do have cards for two Henry H. Jenkins.
Without subscribing I cannot read the cards or see more details.

However the National Archives site yields more info, namely:

Reference:WO 372/10/218412
Description:
Medal card of Jenkins, Henry H
Corps Regiment No Rank
South Wales Borderers 25315 Private

Reference:WO 372/10/218413
Description:
Medal card of Jenkins, Henry H
Corps Regiment No Rank
Machine Gun Corps 170879 Private
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/s/res?_col=2&_q=henry+h+jenkins

The South Wales Borderers is a Regiment often associated with men from the Forest or just across into Wales such as Abergavenny or the Regiment's home town of Brecon.

These two could be the same man, as the MGC were only formed later in the War and you could volunteer, or be volunteered, into this new unit, particularly if you had mechanical/technical experience. Viewing the actual Medal Cards may even show both Army numbers on the same card, meaning it is the same man, soldiers changed numbers if they changed units. See this prior thread for more suggestions
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=33276

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Of course if Henry Howard Jenkins did serve, it's quite possible his records were filed under just "Henry Jenkins", this search yields many more possibles with some in our local Regiments(see link below). The only records that can definitely link a soldier to this search are the Service or Pension Records,as they include details of next of kin etc, but as you may know the majority of the Records were destroyed during WW2.
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/s/res?_col=2&_q=henry+jenkins