Jenkin, LF

Captain Louis Fleeming Jenkin

Born on August 22nd 1895, Louis was the second son of barrister Austin Jenkin and his wife, Elizabeth, who was originally from Australia. He was at the Prep before, in the summer of 1908, coming to the College, where he joined his elder brother, Guy. He spent time as a boarder in Ivyholme and earned a scholarship in 1911. In the summer of 1914 he was a member, and sometimes captain, of the 1st XI cricket side, having previously played for the 3rd XV the previous autumn. That was to be his final year at the College, as he left in July 1914, having earned a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge.
Before Louis went up to Cambridge, however, war was declared, and he gave up his scholarship, instead opting to enlist for military service. He was at first a member of the Public Schools Battalion, but after only a month took up a commission in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. He was promoted to Lieutenant that December, and subsequently went over to France with his unit for the first time in the autumn of 1915. He was subsequently seriously wounded, and as a result invalided home to England, being assigned to the Royal Flying Corps upon his recovery. He went on to qualify as a pilot in April 1917, and shortly afterwards went back to France, where he was assigned to No. 1 Squadron. That summer he was promoted to Captain and, in mid-August, awarded the M.C. – for which he would be awarded a bar less than a month later. On September 11th 1917, shortly after being awarded the bar, his plane was lost in action, and he was later ruled to have died on that day.