Corp. Howard Jenkins (1889-1919)

JENKINS, PERRY

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 3/14/2010 at 18:27:09

Preston Times, March 6, 1919

Corp. Howard Jenkins Dies In England

The shocking news came to Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Jenkins, in a brief cablegram, of the death of their son Howard, which occurred February 23rd in the military hospital at Eastbourne, England. Howard, the oldest son of Dr. and Mrs. Jenkins, was born in Preston, December 13, 1889. Reaching early manhood he took up a Canadian homestead in Alberta, where he remained three years, returning to the United States to take a business course at Valpariso University, after which he made his home in Hooper, Washington, where his sister, Mrs. J. E. Perry and husband were located. He enlisted at Seattle with the British and was transferred to the Canadian Engineers, serving in the Third Division. Howard was taken sick with trench fever at Brussels and was taken to Boulogne, France and then Aldershot, England. He died of influenza and pneumonia.