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Personal info

Full name
JENKINS, Robert Ulysses Kline
Date of birth
1 September 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Wilder, Fentress County, Tennessee
Hometown
Waynesboro, Virginia

Military service

Service number
33540691
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Telephone Switchboard Operator
Unit
HQ & HQ Company,
175th Infantry Regiment,
29th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 November 1944
Place of death
Near Aldenhaven, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
P 6 3

Immediate family

Members
Daniel Jenkins (father)
Lily M. (Wright) Jenkins (mother)
Carl W. Jenkins (brother)
Ann C. Jenkins (sister)
Edna K. L. Jenkins (sister)
Elizabeth (Duke) Jenkins (wife)
Robert D. Jenkins (son)

More information

Pfc Robert U. K. Jenkins graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and was employed by the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company in Waynesboro.

He enlisted on 25 February 1943 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was sent overseas in August 1943 and was promoted to Private First Class on 17 October 1944.

On 24 November 1944 he was operating a field telephone switchboard near Aldenhaven, Germany when the area took a direct hit by an enemy shell.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Family Tree

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Rob Jenkins (grandson) - courtesy of Debbie Holloman