THE  DOVER WAR MEMORIAL  PROJECT

 

war memorial at dusk, photographed by Michelle Cooper


World War I

 

CASUALTIES NOT ON THE MEMORIAL

Surnames J

Jennings, A. A.
Alfred Arthur Jennings, WR/202551, was a Sapper in the Royal Engineers railway operating division. He died on 12 February 1919 and is buried at Les Baraques Military Cemetery, Sangatte, France. VIII C 15

He was the son of Mr and Mrs Jennings from Washington Villas, Monins Road, Dover. He was an engine driver on the SECR and was transferred from Dover to Deal. His home had been in Deal for five years before he died with his wife Louisa Jennings from 16 Wellington Road, Deal

In July 1916 he was released from his railway duties to join a Railway and Trooping Division of the Royal Engineers. He served in Salonika for a year and nine months. He contracted malaria and dysentery and was then sent to a convalescing camp in France about July 1918 and recovered sufficiently to resume railway duties in France. He was looking forward to early demobilisation and to returning to the SECR at home

However, while still in France he became ill with pneumonia and was admitted to hospital at Audrincq. The telegram informing of his admission and a letter suggesting he was improving were both received by his wife after he had died but before she had been notified of his death on 15 February    

gravestone, Joyce BanksJohncock, E. 
Miss Edith Johncock died on 5 December 1920 at Nazareth. She was well-known in Dover as a nurse and during the Great War served in Palestine. She became a prisoner of war but continued her duties until possibly Megiddo, when she was removed to Damascus, still as a prisoner

Miss Johncock was released at the end of the war and returned to Dover. However, she went back to Nazareth in October 1920 to resume her role as Matron of the FHMS hospital

Her mother lived at 67 Barton Road 

The headstone at Charlton reads:

In Loving Memory
of
Edward Johncock
Who died 23 September 1899
Aged 59 years
"Severed only till he come"

Also of Elizabeth Johncock
Wife of the above
Who died 27 February 1925
Aged 82 years
"Rest after weariness"

 

Also of Edith Johncock, R.R.C.
Daughter of the above
Who died in Nazareth, Palestine
5 December 1920
Aged 49 years

gravestone and transcription Joyce Banks

Johncock, F. M.
Florence Minnie Johncock, 24919, was in the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. She was 23 when she died of pneumonia from influenza on 5 November 1918 at the military hospital Colchester (Essex County Hospital on burial record)

Her body was brought home by rail and the night before her funeral a service was held at St Bartholomew's Church. She was buried on 14 November at Charlton Cemetery, 1H 16, and had a military funeral with pall bearers from the Connaught Rangers and representatives of the QMAAC from several units 

She was the daughter of John Henry and Clara Johncock of 6 Odo Road, Dover, formerly 27 Tower Hamlets Road. Among the floral tributes was one from "her broken-hearted father and mother" another from her sisters Rosie, Hazel, and Winnie, and one from her brother Godfrey, with the BEF in France. Her old schoolmates Cissie, Clara, and Ettie Pollard also sent flowers

F MJohncock's headstone, by Simon Chambers  Her headstone has fallen over. It reads:

In Loving Memory of Florence Minnie Johncock
Q M A A C
Died in her country's service
5 November 1918 Aged 23 years
She hath done what she could

 


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