JENKINS, Samuel Leslie

Rank: 
Captain
Unit / Base: 
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
South Wales Borderers
Service: 
Army
Number: 
88225
Died : 
Monday, March 6, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
29
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Captain Samuel Jenkins joined No.2 Commando on 27 August 1942. Reported wounded, missing and believed a prisoner of war 5 March 1944 during operations at Solta, later confirmed as having died of wounds 6 March 1944 whilst a prisoner of war. Son of John and Ellen Jenkins, of Carmarthen; husband of Jean Rosaleen Jenkins. A memorial cross at St David's Church, Llanarthney Carmarthenshire, is inscribed in his memory. The previous year he had been wounded during operations at Sicily on 16 August 1943.
Extracts from the No.2 Cdo War Diary
4th March 1944 at Vis - "Captain S.L. Jenkins departed with Lt McMenamin to Solta to recce for proposed raid";  
8th March 1944 at Vis - "Lt McMenamin returned with the news that Captain Jenkins had been wounded and captured by the Germans on Solta." 
 
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/5 (Sicily);  WO417/6 and WO417/7 (Solta).
No.2 Cdo. War Diary Field Return of Officers Dec'43.
 
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