We are very grateful to Juliet Jenkin, of Redruth, who gave a talk at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, during our exhibition there. Juliet gave a very heartfelt and touching talk about William Gendall Jenkin, a cousin of her late husband, who died on the Western Front. William was a sapper – he was a Cornish miner who tunnelled out under enemy lines. This was very dangerous work as tunnels often collapsed and William lost his life with several of his companions. A memorial to those who died is in St Agnes church.
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- William Gendall Jenkin
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- Good Conduct Certificate – William Gendall Jenkin
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- With friends, pictured in Penzance
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- A card announcing William’s death, alongside that of his friend John Eva, who had also enlisted in Camborne
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- A letter of condolence
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- Trees have now grown over the battlefields where so many men died – William underground as he tunnelled beneath enemy lines
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- William’s grave in France
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- Belt, worn by William Gendall Jenkin while he was tunnelling, brought back from France after his death
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- Memorial in St Agnes Church
