SPOOKER Posted 11 January , 2009 Share Posted 11 January , 2009 Would like a photo and any information regarding CAPTAIN ERIC FRANK PENN 4th battalion Grenadier Guards killed 18/10/1915 when a shell struck his dugout opposite the Hohenzollern Redoubt (LOOS). Any help would be great WIELTJE. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiddy30 Posted 11 January , 2009 Share Posted 11 January , 2009 Would like a photo and any information regarding CAPTAIN ERIC FRANK PENN 4th battalion Grenadier Guards killed 18/10/1915 when a shell struck his dugout opposite the Hohenzollern Redoubt (LOOS). Any help would be great WIELTJE. . hi,Captain eric(frank) penn killed 18/10/1915.son of william and constance penn of london.Husband of gladis penn of baldshaw place,baldshaw sussex.(brother)Buried vermelles british cemetery,par de calais france.Grave ref I.K.11. HOPE THIS HELPS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
River97 Posted 11 January , 2009 Share Posted 11 January , 2009 WIELTJE, A copy of his MIC. Cheers Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebie9173 Posted 11 January , 2009 Share Posted 11 January , 2009 Bio and Picture here, Wieltje: http://www.roll-of-honour.com/London/StockExchange.html Please ask the website owner for permission to use the picture and information. He is GWF member "MEMORIAL MAN" . No shortage of other Google hits either: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q...sa=N&tab=iw Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPOOKER Posted 16 January , 2009 Author Share Posted 16 January , 2009 Thanks for everybodys input ,cheers. WIELTJE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
per ardua per mare per terram Posted 21 January , 2009 Share Posted 21 January , 2009 Probable Service record: WO 339/44347 PENN E F, Capt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rflory Posted 21 January , 2009 Share Posted 21 January , 2009 Lieut. Eric Frank Penn, Grenadier Guards Born in 1878, the son of W. Penn of Taverham Hall, Norwich At Eton from Sept 1891 to July 1897 (Crickett XI, 1897; Field XI, 1896; Mixed Wall, 1896; Oppidian Wall 1895-1896; won quarter, throwing cricket ball, and weight 1897. At Trinity College, Cambridge from 1897-1902 (Cambridge XI, 1899) Lieut. R. Scots Militia during the South African War 2nd Lieut, Norfolk Yeomanry During the Great War served as a Captain, Grenadier Guards (mentioned in despatches, KIA-18 Oct 1915) Sources: Eton School Register, 1893-1899: List of Etonians Who Fought in the Great War; Fifty Years of Sport: Eton, Harrow, Winchester; The War List of the University of Cambridge 1914-1919. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPOOKER Posted 6 January , 2010 Author Share Posted 6 January , 2010 Lieut. Eric Frank Penn, Grenadier Guards Born in 1878, the son of W. Penn of Taverham Hall, Norwich At Eton from Sept 1891 to July 1897 (Crickett XI, 1897; Field XI, 1896; Mixed Wall, 1896; Oppidian Wall 1895-1896; won quarter, throwing cricket ball, and weight 1897. At Trinity College, Cambridge from 1897-1902 (Cambridge XI, 1899) Lieut. R. Scots Militia during the South African War 2nd Lieut, Norfolk Yeomanry During the Great War served as a Captain, Grenadier Guards (mentioned in despatches, KIA-18 Oct 1915) Sources: Eton School Register, 1893-1899: List of Etonians Who Fought in the Great War; Fifty Years of Sport: Eton, Harrow, Winchester; The War List of the University of Cambridge 1914-1919. Thanks for picture brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Underdown Posted 7 January , 2010 Share Posted 7 January , 2010 A little bit more from Venn/A Cambridge Alumni Database 1200-1900 http://venn.csi.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.p...amp;maxcount=50 Penn, Eric Frank. Adm. pens. at TRINITY, June 25, 1897. [Eldest] s. of William, of Taverham Hall, Norfolk [and sometime of St Albans Court, Dover] (and Constance). B. Apr. 17, 1878, in London. School, Eton. Matric. Michs. 1897. Cricket 'blue,' 1899, 1902. Served in the S. African War, 1899-1901 (Lieut., 3rd Royal Scots). Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Second Lieut., Norfolk Yeomanry, 1914; Capt., 4th Grenadier Guards, 1915; mentioned in despatches); killed in action, Oct. 18, 1915. (Scott, MSS.; Book of Blues; Army Lists; Univ. War List, which erroneously gives 'killed Feb. 11'; The Times, Oct. 25, 1915.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moriaty Posted 1 June , 2015 Share Posted 1 June , 2015 A rather belated posting to this topic. Does anyone have a trench map that shows where the 4th Grenadiers were in relation to the Hohenzollern Redoubt on 18 October 1915? Does anyone have the Battalion diary of the 4th Grenadiers for this period? Were the 3rd and 4th Battalions Grenadiers located near each other during this period? Moriaty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest forestview Posted 22 January , 2016 Share Posted 22 January , 2016 I took his grandson and great grandson to his grave on the anniversary of his death in October. see www.battlefieldtours.co in the blog section If you email me rhydian@battlefieldtours.co I will send you a trench map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Palwing Posted 22 January , 2016 Share Posted 22 January , 2016 Hi Rhydian. Did you receive my message regarding the antique chest belonging to Captain Eric Penn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moriaty Posted 23 January , 2016 Share Posted 23 January , 2016 Thanks Rhydian Moriaty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil1963 Posted 8 April , 2016 Share Posted 8 April , 2016 My cricket research took me to Nonnington church near Canterbury and he is mentioned on BOTH war memorials OUTSIDE of that village church. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wet255 Posted 8 August , 2021 Share Posted 8 August , 2021 I wrote the book, "Final Wicket" Test and First Class Crickets killed in the Great War. There is quite a bit about him on P163 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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