Name
Henry George (George Henry) Penney *1
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/08/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
855373
Royal Field Artillery
1st/5th Hants Bty
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BASRA MEMORIAL
Panel 3 and 60
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, Not on the Redbourn memorials, We are not aware of any memorial in Childwickbury to the villagers or the Estate
Pre War
Born in 1897 in the Common, Redbourn, Herts. son of Thomas and Sarah Penny, living in Redbourn in 1901 (as Henry) and with the same family in 8, Shafford Cottages, St. Albans (as George) in 1911.
Recorded as born in Redbourn and enlisting in Yarmouth, Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Yarmouth, Freshwater, Isle of Wight and died a Prisoner-of-War in Iraq.
Additional Information
CWGC records as PENNY as the surname. *1 We currently beleive that Henry George Penney appears as G H Penney on some of the St Albans memorials.
Acknowledgments
Christine Aitken, Gareth Hughes, Malcolm Lennox
