Captain Samuel Leslie Jenkins, No.2 Commando, kia 6/3/44 Solta Island

[Photo cropped from a group photo in Gallery].

Captain Samuel Jenkins joined No.2 Commando on 27 August 1942. Reported wounded, missing and believed a prisoner of war 5 March 1944 during operations at Solta, later confirmed as having died of wounds 6 March 1944 whilst a prisoner of war. Son of John and Ellen Jenkins, of Carmarthen; husband of Jean Rosaleen Jenkins. A memorial cross at St David's Church, Llanarthney Carmarthenshire, is inscribed in his memory. The previous year he had been wounded during operations at Sicily on 16 August 1943.
Extracts from the No.2 Cdo War Diary
4th March 1944 at Vis - "Captain S.L. Jenkins departed with Lt McMenamin to Solta to recce for proposed raid";
8th March 1944 at Vis - "Lt McMenamin returned with the news that Captain Jenkins had been wounded and captured by the Germans on Solta."

In Memory of 88225 Captain Samuel Leslie Jenkins
South Wales Borderers and No. 2, Commando
who died age 29 on 06 March 1944 Solta
Remembered with honour Belgrade War Cemetery