Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (2007219 Spr. H. N. Jenkins. C.E.) toned, nearly extremely fine and scarce to a citizen of the United States of America £70-£90

Howard Newton Jenkins was born in Preston, Iowa, United States of America, on 13 December 1889, the son of Dr. Hugh Jenkins. He attested, as a United States citizen, for the Canadian Engineers as part of the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 12 December 1917, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from June 1918. He contracted influenza in December of that year; returning to England, he appeared to have made a full recovery but collapsed and died suddenly of myocarditis on 23 February 1919. He is buried in Seaford Cemetery, Sussex.