Frederick Albert Jenkins
Rank: Marine
Service Number: POX 706
Joined Hood: August 1933
Left Hood: October 1935
Biographical Information: Frederick enlisted as a 'boy soldier' around 1925-6. He served on H.M.S. Warspite from 23 July 1931 to 04 May 1933 then had 4 months ashore before joining H.M.S. Hood in August 1933.
He had a couple of months ashore in late 1935 before joining H.M.S. Enterprise on 23 Jan 1936. He served on the Enterprise until April 1938. He then joined the Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation. He was attached to H.M.S. Odyssey a shore establishment from March to October 1944 and was known to have been at Gold Beach shortly after D-Day.
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Sources
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
'Register of Deaths of Naval Ratings' (data extracted by Director of Naval Personnel (Disclosure Cell), Navy Command HQ, 2009)
Service Certificate, courtesy of Roger Jenkins