Source: Per post by Terry McCormick at the 18th Battalion Facebook Group.
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Family Search: When Private William Jenkins was born on 16 September 1894, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Jenkins, was 25 and his mother, Mary Hullit, was 22. He lived in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as labourer in Brampton, Peel, Ontario, Canada.
Prisoner of War. Went missing on 28 May 1917 during an action against a German offensive raid on the 18th Battalion’s lines. One of 3 men of the 18th Battalion to go missing during that action.
Diary Excerpt:
1:00 a.m.
Enemy opened barrage on Battalion H.Q. MT. FORET QUARRIES, our Support Line at T.23.a.6. and our Front Line. The barrage on the Front Line lifted at 1.15 a.m. then two raiding parties, each estimated at 25 or 30 men, one on each side of the MT. FORET – ACHEVILLE ROAD, were seen approaching our wire. Fire was opened by M.G’s and rifles. Unable to get through the wire and checked by our fire the enemy retired. Of the party on the left frontage two of the enemy succeeded in getting through the wire, one of whom was severely wounded and taken, and the other gave himself up and was immediately sent back to Brigade H.Q. In the evening a dead German was brought in.
On the right frontage wiring was in progress and a N.C.O. and 6 men were well out front of our wire, when the barrage opened the N.C.O., Cpl. L. Skilton, gave orders for the party to retire. Immediately after the raiding party were seen and dispersed by our fire.
As soon as all quietened down a search party went out but failed to find the three men of the protecting patrol who were found not to have returned. Two rifles were found in a shell-hole but no other trace of them.
The night raiding party came on the road and immediately to the right of it. The left party about 250 yards from the road.
At daybreak Huns were seen carrying in casualties and stretchers were seen during the day on the BOUVRY ROAD also our observers report seeing 10 or 12 dead lying in no-man’s land today at T.18.c.6.5. Our casualties during the raid were 3 men Missing, 1 man Killed and 1 man wounded.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 