Name
John Richard Jennings*1
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
S/17566
Rifle Brigade
16th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 16 B and 16 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
According to the Lawson Thompson Scrapbooks he was in the Rifle Brigade and it is reasonably certain to be John Richard Jennings although there is no obvious link to Hitchin. He was born in Islington, was a resident of Brondesbury in Middlesex and enlisted in Holborn. His Regimental Number was S/17566 and he was a Rifleman in the 16th Battalion. He was killed in action on the 3rd September 1916 in France and he is described as being on ‘Special Duties’.
If this is the correct man he has no known grave, but is remembered on Pier/Face 16B & 16C of the great Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France.
The only other ‘J.R. Jennings’ mentioned in ‘Soldiers died’ database had all his associations in Wales and served in the South Lancashire Regiment.
It has not been possible to identify positively the correct casualty in the Medal Rolls.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
