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Lieutenant Walter Brynley KEMEYS-JENKIN (1933)

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2nd Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
Born 2 April 1915 in India
Died 14 August 1944, aged 29
Buried at Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery; also commemorated on Exmouth War Memorial.


Walter Kemeys-Jenkin was the son of Captain Ernest and Mrs Edith Kemeys-Jenkin of Glan Mor, Exmouth; and the husband of Kathleen Betty, née Angear.


He was educated at Blundell’s School, Devon, and came up to Merton to read English.