The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F W B Penney

Photograph by "Uwe"

Private Francis Walter Barnes PENNEY, G/10665, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died whilst a Prisoner of War, Germany, 2nd July 1918, age 25.

27th September 1892, born Kennington, SE, son of Walter Barnes & Lilllan Charlotte Penney, of 127, Malpas Road, Brockley, London.

10th September 1893, St Anne, Kew, Surrey, baptism of Francis Walter Barnes Penney, son of Walter Barnes, (licensed victualler), & Lilllan Penney.

1911 Census - 19 New King Street, Deptford, SE - Walter Barnes Penney, head, age 55, married, caretaker (closed Public House), born St Georges East, London; Lilllan Charlotte Banes Penney, wife, age 51, married 20 years, 4 children, 3 still alive, born Greenwich, Kent; Francis Walter Barnes Penney, son, age 18, single, clerk, cold storage, born Kennington, London; Clarence Albert Barnes Penney, son, age 12, school boy, born St Pancras, London; Hector Owen Barnes Penney, son, age 11, school boy, born St Pancras, London.

Enlisted Deptford, SE, age 23 years & 34 days, height 5ft 6½ inches, weight 126lbsscar left wrist, slightly deaf right ear. Resided 127 Malpas Road, Brockley, SE. Formerly clerk.

Home 3rd November 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF 3rd May 1916 to 28th September 1916; Home 29th September 1916 to 11th September 1917; BEF 12th September 1917 to 2nd July 1918.

3rd November 1915, enlisted & posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd May 1916, posted BEF; 15th September 1916, wounded in action, gun shot wound right arm; 28th September 1916, to England, ex 6 General Hospital, Rouen, gun shot wound right arm; 29th September 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 29th September 1916, Southwark Military Hospital, London SE, gun shot wound right upper humerus; 31st March 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th April 1917, posted 2/5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th September 1917, posted BEF, embarked Folkestone; 12th September 1917, Etaples, 40 Infantry Base Depot; 16th September 1917, Etaples, 40 Infantry Base Depot, posted 3/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th September 1917, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st to 28th March 1918, posted missing.

2nd July 1918, died in Camp Hospital, at Stendal from intestinal catarrh, whilst a Prisoner of War.

2nd September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, W B Penney, 127, Malpas Road, Brockley; Mother, L C Penney, 127, Malpas Road, Brockley; Brothers - C A Penney, age 21, 127, Malpas Road, Brockley; H O Penney, age 19, HMS Excellent, Whale Island, Portsmouth.

15th August 1918, certified extract of Chief Death Register in the Registry Office at Stendal (document badly damaged) - Local Prisoners of War Hospital, certified in writing that Francis Walter Penney, English, Prisoner of War, Day Labourer, age ????? & 10 months, Religion Protestant; single, parents of deceased unknown, died 2nd July 1918, at 8.30am.

23rd June 1919, date when Separation Allowance of 16/- a week payable to mother will cease.

Buried at Berlin South-Western Cemetery, I. A. 1., Germany, relocated from Stendal Prisoner of War Cemetery, in Prussian Saxony, which contained the graves of 140 soldiers from the United Kingdom, two from Canada and one from Newfoundland, who died in 1917-1918.

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