Corporal Jennings

Role: 28th regiment
Notes:
28th regiment

Events

  • Shooting of a ringleader at the store
    30 Apr 1840 – 30 Oct 1840 — Mr. Rattenbury's store — killing
    When a small party rushed toward the store entrance, a constable fired his musket and killed the ringleader.
    Sources
    • PORT PHILLIP EXTRACTS. Tasmanian Weekly Dispatch (Hobart Town, Tas. : 1839 - 1841), Friday 30 October 1840, page 6 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/233619804
    • NEWS FROM THE INTERIOR. Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), Monday 2 November 1840, page 2 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12866311
    • THE BLACKS. Port Phillip Gazette (Vic. : 1838 - 1845), Wednesday 14 October 1840, page 3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/225005950
    • DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Saturday 24 October 1840, page 2 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2546927
    • PORT PHILLIP. Hobart Town Advertiser (Tas. : 1839 - 1861), Friday 30 October 1840, page 2 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/264585546
    • PORT PHILLIP. Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), Saturday 24 October 1840, page 2 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28652699
    • PORT PHILIP. Colonist (Sydney, NSW : 1835 - 1840), Tuesday 3 November 1840, page 3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/31725836
    • Port Phillip. Australasian Chronicle (Sydney, NSW : 1839 - 1843), Thursday 29 October 1840, page 4 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/31729652

Mentions of person in sources

  • corporal Jennings of 28th regiment
    3 May 1840
    “the other, which seems to have been the fatal shot, by corporal Jennings of 28th regiment, who, it is stated in the [heat] of the moment, fired right in among the blacks, then attempting to escape by the doorway, immediately on his arrival at the scene of the action.”
    Source: PORT PHILIP. Colonist (Sydney, NSW : 1835 - 1840), Tuesday 3 November 1840, page 3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/31725836