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VC424 Henry Singleton Pennell
BORN 18 June 1874
DIED 19 January 1907 AGE 32
VC Won 20 October 1897 AGE 23
Place VC Won Dargal Heights, India
War/Campaign Tirah Campaign, India
Name Henry Singleton Pennell No.
VC Issue No. 424 Awards VC
Regiment Derbyshire Regiment
Later Sherwood Foresters, Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment
Now 2nd Battalion the Mercian Regiment
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Dawlish, Devon, England
Place Of Death St Moritzdorp, Switzerland
Buried/Location Ashes St Gregory the Great Parish Churchyard, Church Road, Dawlish, Devon
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 20 May 1898
VC Presented 2 September 1898, Lieutenant-Colonel E C Douse, Bareilly, India
Memorials
P Headstone, St Gregory the Great Parish Churchyard, Church Road, Dawlish, Devon
Stained glass window, Eastbourne College Chapel, Eastbourne, East Sussex
By The Way…
He died in a tobogganing accident on the Cresta Run, St Moritz, Switzerland.
VC Held By
Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) Museum, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
