William Hope JENKINSON

Regimental number10/3304
Date of birth1 March 1895
Place of birthNew Plymouth
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationCoach builder
AddressYork Terrace, New Plymouth
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation20
Height5' 7"
Weight149 lbs
Next of kinFather, William Jenkinson, New Plymouth
Previous military serviceServed in Highland Regiment [?], New Plymouth; transferred to 11th Regiment.
Enlistment date24 August 1915
Rank on embarkationPrivate
Enlistment statusVolunteer
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 8th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board Willochra on 13 November 1915
Final rankPrivate
Final unitWellington Infantry Regiment
FateCommenced return to New Zealand 7 February 1919
Discharge date23 April 1919
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Embarked Wellington, 13 November 1915; disembarked Suez, 20 December 1915.

Admitted to NZ General Hospital, Cairo, 29 December 1915 (not yet diagnosed); discharged to Base Details, Zeitoun, 8 January 1916.

Joined Wellington Infantry Bn, Ismailia, 20 February 1916.

Admitted to No 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 16 March 1916; rejoined Bn, 2 April 1916.

Sick to hospital, 5 April 1916; rejoined Bn, in the field, 18 April 1916.

Admitted to 12th Casualty Clearing Station, 18 April 1916 (synovitis, knee); transferred to NZ General Hospital, Etaples; to England, 12 May 1916, and admitted to No 2 London General Hospital, Chelsea, 13 May 1916; transferred to No 2 NZ General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, 20 May 1916; to Woodcote Hospital, 26 June 1916; to NZ Command Depot, Codford, 9 August 1916.

Found guilty, 21 November 1916, of being absent without leave: forfeited 2 days' pay.

Proceeded overseas to France from Sling Camp, 1 March 1917; rejoined Bn, in the field, 27 May 1917.

Wounded in action, 7 June 1917 (gun shot wound, right arm), and admitted to 77th Field Ambulance; transferred same day to 11th Casualty Clearing Station; to No 20 General Hospital, Camiers, 8 June 1917; to England, 11 June 1917, and admitted same day to No 2 NZ General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames; transferred to NZ Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch, 9 July 1917; to No 3 NZ General Hospital (Venereal Section: gonorrhoea), Codford, 10 July 1917; discharged to NZ Command Depot, Codford, 10 July 1917.

Readmitted to Venereal Disease Section, No 3 NZ General Hospital, Codford, 1 September 1917; admitted to No 3 NZ General Hospital (Venereal Section), Codford, 3 October 1917; discharged from VD Section, 17 November 1917.

Attached on strength, NZ Command Depot, 28 November 1917;

Proceeded overseas to France; marched in to NZ Base Depot, Etaples, 24 March 1918; transferred to No 1 NZ Entrenching Bn, 26 March 1918; transferred to No 2 NZ Entrenching Bn, 29 March 1918; joined No 1 NZ Entrenching Bn, in the field, 19 May 1918.

Admitted to No 2 NZ Field Ambulance, 30 August 1918 (debility); rejoined 1st Bn, Wellington Infantry Regiment, in the field, 2 September 1918.

Wounded in action (second occasion), 12 October 1918 (gun shot wound, chest and abdomen), and admitted to No 2 NZ Field Ambulance; transferred same day to No 3 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station; to No 3 Stationary Hospital, Rouen, 14 October 1918; to England, 15 October 1918, and admitted to Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, 16 October 1918; discharged from hospital, 26 November 1918.

Commenced return to New Zealand from Liverpool on board HT 'Ajana', 7 February 1919; discharged (no longer physically fit for War Service on account of wounds received in action), 23 April 1919.

Total war service: 3 years 243 days (of which 3 years 133 days were abroad)

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Miscellaneous detailsNominal Roll Vol. 1: Wellington Infantry Batln/Eighth
SourcesArchives New Zealand (Wellington), Agency AABK, Series 18805