Jennings, A. E.
Alfred Arthur Jennings, WR/202551, was a Sapper in the Royal Engineers,. railway operating division. He died on 12th 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 15th February.    

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 5th November 1918 at the military hospital, Colchester.

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 at Charlton cemetery on 14th November, 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.

  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
5th November 1918 Aged 23 years
She hath done what she could

Note: A Miss Edith Johncock died on 5th 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. She 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.