21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd and
yst. _s._ of George Peart, by his wife, Marie (55, Silverdale,
Sydenham, S.E.), dau. of Francis Henry Moller; _b._ Adelaide,
South Australia, 10 Aug. 1891; educ. Bellenden Road L.C.C. School and
Dulwich College; passed the Intermediate Examination in June, 1914, and
was admitted an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries
the following month, and prior to the outbreak of war was engaged on
the staff of the Kamfersdam Mines, Ltd., of Gresham House, Old Broad
street, E.C., with Mr. W. Howarth, F.C.I.S., who held a high opinion
of his abilities. He joined the 1st Surrey Rifles for active service,
31 Aug. 1914, and after training at St. Albans, Luton and Harpenden,
went to France, 14 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy,
25 May, 1915; _unm._ His Company Officer, 2nd Lieut. H. Persse,
wrote; “On 25 May the battn. was ordered to attack at Givenchy. In the
ordinary course of attack the bombers go first so as to prevent what
are known as flank attacks. Your brother was with them, and I saw him
myself go right into the German front line trench and on then to the
second line trench. The last I saw of him was when his supply of bombs
had run out--he was standing his ground very coolly on top of a German
trench using his bayonet to great effect. I am afraid he was hit by a
bomb, for when we found him next day he was greatly damaged but quite
dead. I buried him myself with a lot of his comrades, and I am sure it
will relieve your sorrow somewhat to know that the ‘fellow Tommies’
put up a beautiful cross to him with his name and regt. upon it. I
always knew Stanley Peart as one of my best men. When the call came for
bombers (a most dangerous job), Peart didn’t wait to be selected; he
volunteered, and paid the price. No work was too hard for him, and he
certainly fulfilled my greatest expectations when the time came for the
battn. to show what it was made of.” And a comrade: “He was my fellow
bomber in our platoon. There are four of us to a platoon. Although I
did not actually see him fall, I know pretty well what his end was. It
happened just before our platoon went over the parapet to support the
other fellows who were holding the captured trench in front. There was
an urgent call for bombs and bombers, and as Stan. happened to have a
bandolier of bombs on him he was detailed to go with some more bombers.
He was with me when he got the order, but he went to join the others a
few yards further down the line. It was just in the act of getting over
the parapet that he was shot; I think a machine gun caught him. At any
rate it was a bullet that caused his death, not a shell.... He was one
of the most popular fellows in our platoon.” Peart was well known in
South London as a most versatile athlete. He captained Bellenden Road
L.C.C. School in cricket, football and swimming. He won the Rutherford
Harris Shield, the Championship South London breast stroke swimming
in 1904, the championship of Dulwich, 1904 and 1905, and played in
the cricket team for the boys for East v. West at the Oval in 1905
and 1906, captaining the team in 1906. He was in the Dulwich Hamlet
Reserves in the season 1910–11, when they won the Southern Suburban
League Championship. He played in the first team of Honor Oak Cricket
Club for several years, until he gave up playing by his doctor’s orders.
[Illustration: =Stanley Brace Peart.=]
=PEAT, WILLIAM McDONALD=, Private, No. 10299, 2nd Battn. the
Scots Guards, 2nd _s._ of Colin Peat, of 7, Roseburn Terrace,
Edinburgh, formerly of Ratho, Midlothian, by his wife, Isabella, dau.
of William McDonald, of Barflat, Aberdeenshire, Farmer; _b._
Edinburgh, 11 Feb. 1896; educ. Brunsfield and Roseburn Public Schools,
Edinburgh; enlisted 1 Sept. 1914; went to France 16 Feb. 1915, and
was killed in action by a shell near Givenchy, 14 June, 1915. He was
buried along with seven of his comrades just where he fell, after a
charge at Festubert, where his coy. were nearly all killed or wounded.
He had been picked as reserve stretcher-bearer but did not have the
opportunity of performing the duties assigned to him.
=PECKHAM, BERTRAM=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 2854), 301582,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=PECKER, HENRY CYRIL=, Lieut., 3rd. attd. 1st, Battn. The Royal
Scots, 4th _s._ of Major and Quartermaster George Pecker, of
Workington, co. Cumberland (now on active service with the Border Regt.
(T.F.)), by his wife, Alice Charlotte, dau. of Septimus Radclyffe;
_b._ Shrewsbury, 8 Oct. 1894; educ. St. Bees School, where he
was a member of the O.T.C., and on leaving there entered the St.
Helen’s Colliery Co.; joined the General Reserve of Officers of the
3rd Border Regt. as 2nd Lieut., 17 May, 1913, and on the outbreak of
war in Aug. 1914, was drafted to the Royal Scots; went to France in
Oct., was wounded at Ypres in Dec., but returned to his Regt. in March;
was promoted Lieut. 29 April, and was killed in action at Hooge, by a
shell, the following day, 30 April, 1915. Buried in Hooge Chateau. His
school magazine wrote of him: “A keen sportsman, a charming companion,
a gentleman in its fullest sense, he could not fail to win his way in
his Regt., as he had done at School and in professional life.” He was
_unm._
[Illustration: =Henry Cyril Pecker.=]
=PECKSON, JOSEPH WILLIAM=, Leading Signalman (R.F.R., Ch. B.
9055), 196514, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=PEDDEL, SYDNEY EDGAR=, Sergt., No. 8918, 5th Battn. (London Rifle
Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 4th _s._ of Edward James Peddel,
of 33, Cardonzo Road, Caledonian Road, Holloway, N., Coach Trimmer,
by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth, dau. of Isaac Salter, of Southampton;
_b._ Salisbury, co. Wilts, 1 July, 1888; educ. St. James’s Church
School, Holloway; was employed in a city stockbroker’s office; joined
the L.R.B. in 1907; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak
of war in Aug. 1914; went to France 1 Nov. following; took part in
several trench attacks; came home on leave 21 Feb. 1915; returned to
the firing line on the 28th, and was killed in action at Ploegsteert,
10 April following, _unm._ Buried in the L.R.B. Cemetery in the
wood there. 2nd Lieut. A. Bryan White wrote: “Although I had only
been his platoon commander for a very short time, I have known Sergt.
Peddel for many years, and feel that I have not only lost a good N.C.O.
but a very old friend. He was liked and respected by every man in the
battn., and would have made an excellent officer had his commission
gone through sooner.” Sergt. Peddel was well known in North London as
an indefatigable athlete. He was a leader of the Gymnasium connected
with St. James’s Church, Holloway, and the possessor of several medals
won in various competitions. He took part in the Territorial sports
at Stamford Bridge in 1913, when the London Rifle Brigade beat the
London Scottish in the Marathon in the record time of 1 hour 33 mins.
37 secs.--a remarkably fine achievement. Sergt. Peddel was then a
L.-Corpl. In April, 1914, when the L.R.B. made the forced march from
London to Brighton, Corpl. Peddel (to which rank he had been promoted)
was pacemaker, and assisted to set up a new record for long-distance
marching, the Foreign Legion’s record of 50 miles in 15½ hours being
easily beaten. The time occupied by the L.R.B. to do the 52½ miles was
14 hours 23 mins. (marching time 12 hours 44 mins.). Sergt. Peddel
secured several prizes in L.R.B. contests. He won a silver cup in the
school of arms competition 1913, bayonet v. bayonet, and another cup in
the five miles race in the same year. He was also a member of the Orion
Harriers, the Archway Harriers, the Crouch End Cyclist Club, and the
Alexandra Park Tennis Club.
[Illustration: =Sydney E. Peddel.=]
=PEDDER, PERCY JAMES=, Private, No. 7759, 2nd Battn. The Border
Regt., eldest _s._ of (--) Pedder; was for some time in South
Africa; returned during the Balkan War, and went to Greece with the
British Red Cross. On the outbreak of the European War he volunteered
and joined the 2nd Border Regt.; went to France with his Regt. in the
7th Division, and was killed in action 24 Oct. 1914, while assisting
a wounded comrade. Coy. Sergt.-Major Stuart Davenport wrote: “I am
able to inform you from an eyewitness who was next to him when he was
killed that he died a hero in a trench at a traverse.... A man was hit
by a shrapnel; no one would go and help him at the moment--as shell
after shell was coming in at that particular spot. Pedder went and had
succeeded in bandaging him up when he was struck behind the left ear by
one bullet from a shell, which penetrated his brain. He died at once
and said not a word, and he was buried that night, a cross was put on
his grave.” He _m._ Annette (26, Palatine Road, Stoke Newington,
N.), dau. of (--).
=PEEL, ALAN RALPH=, Capt., South Wales Borderers (24th Regt.),
eldest surviving _s._ of Herbert Peel, of Taliaris Park, co.
Carmarthen, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Mary Susannah Ainsworth, dau.
of the late Capt. William Lee, R.M.L.I.; _b._ Taliaris Park,
7 July, 1886; educ. Cheltenham College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd
Lieut. to the South Wales Borderers, 24 Jan. 1906, became Lieut. 1 Dec.
1907, and Capt., 12 Sept. 1914; served with the 1st Battn. in India,
1907–9, and at Pretoria, 1910; attached to the South African Mounted
Infantry, Feb. 1911, and quartered at Harrismith and Bloemfontein to
1912, in which year he was seconded to the West African Frontier Force
(Nigerian Regt.). Returning home on furlough in 1914, he was the same
year seconded for service with the Nigerian Mounted Infantry, and
left again for West Africa in June; he was killed in action, leading
a bayonet charge, at Kosseoa, near Marna, North Cameroons, 17 Nov.
1914; _unm._ His Commanding Officer wrote as follows: “I had
made application for him to join me, knowing his ability. You have
the honour of knowing no soldier could have met a more gallant death,
viz., at the head of his men, leading them to the charge and showing an
example of great bravery. He was buried with all honours by the Capt.
of the French company with whom he was operating at the time.” The
latter wrote: “I paid the funeral honours ... to the two brave English
officers, MM. le Capit. A. R. Peel and Lieut. Percival, who fell on the
field of honour while giving to their men an example of great bravery.”
The Commandant of the Nigerian Regt. wrote as follows: “To lighten
your great sorrow you have the honour of knowing that your son died in
a manner worthily upholding the finest traditions of the Service, and
setting an example of valour to the whole regt., among whom he was so
deservedly known as a brave and upright officer and the best of good
comrades.” Capt. A. R. Peel was a thorough all-round sportsman, a good
rider and polo player.
[Illustration: =Alan Ralph Peel.=]
=PEELING, HARRY COURTLAND=, Officer’s Cook, 1st Class, 365838,
H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Joseph Peeling, of Gardener’s Lodge, Wickham
Place, near Witham, co. Essex; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the
North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=PEET, JOHN EDWARD GRIMSTON=, 2nd Lieut., 9th (Service) Battn. The
Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., elder _s._ of James Henry Peet,
of Perry Hill, Worplesdon, co. Surrey, M.D., by his wife, Winifred,
dau. of the late Major Henry Grimston Hale, 11th Hussars; _b._
Huddersfield, co. York, 24 April, 1895; educ. St. George’s College,
Weybridge, and Douay Abbey, Woolhampton; enlisted in the Berkshire
Yeomanry, 25 Sept. 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Royal West Surrey
Regt., 9 Feb. 1915 and was accidentally killed in a motor cycle
collision at Guildford on the 27th while on service. Lieut.-Col. J.
B. Kerslake wrote: “We had great expectations of him, and in no case
have I recommended a commission with more confidence. His premature
death is a loss not only to his family but to his country. In your
great loss we, indeed, sympathise most deeply. Your only consolation
can be that he met his death while serving his country, and doing his
duty to the fullest.” And Brig.-Gen. Andrew L. Macfies, Commanding 1st
South Lancashire Brigade: “The class of instruction to which your son
belonged is attached to my brigade. He was, therefore, to some extent
under my command, and I understand showed every promise of becoming a
good officer.”
[Illustration: =John Edward G. Peet.=]
=PELHAM, HENRY ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9409, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=PELHAM, HON. HERBERT LYTTLETON=, Lieut. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn.
Royal Sussex Regt., 4th and yst. _s._ of Francis Godolphin, 5th
Earl of Chichester, by his wife, Alice, née Carr Glyn (Oldland, Keymer,
Sussex), dau. of George Carr, 1st Baron Wolverton; _b._ Lambeth
Rectory, London, 3 April, 1884; educ. by the Rev. A. Tabor, Cheam;
Charterhouse; and Rev. V. Scott, South Lynn, Eastbourne; joined the
Duke of Connaught’s Own Hampshire and Isle of Wight Royal Garrison
Artillery (Militia), 12 April, 1902; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Sussex
Regt., 3 June, 1904; joined the 2nd Battn. at Malta, 5 Aug. 1904;
served in Crete during the insurrection and later on the International
Tribunal there; and in Belfast 1907 during riots; promoted Lieut. 26
Sept. 1908; passed first “distinction” in musketry and over 95 per
cent. in machine gunnery courses at Hythe, 25 Sept. 1909; appointed
Adjutant 18 Dec. 1911; took Brevet Certificate, and was accepted for
Royal Flying Corps, 9 April, 1914; specially commended for work of
mobilisation, Aug. 1914; left for France as Senior Lieut. and Adjutant,
2nd Battn., with 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, 12 Aug. 1914, became
acting Capt. after the death of Capt. Jemmet Browne, 12 Sept., and was
killed in action 14 Sept. following, during the Battle of the Aisne;
_unm._ The 2nd Royal Sussex were in reserve at Mons, and formed
part of the rearguard during the retirement from that place, and then
became the vanguard of the 1st Army, when the Germans turned, before
the Battle of the Marne. Major-Gen. E. H. Bulfin wrote: “I ordered
the Sussex to pass on and seize the ridges north of the village of
Priez.... 10 Sept., for the good work done that day I sent in Pelham’s
name for recognition. 14 Sept. Pelham with a handful of men of the
Sussex held on to the Chemin des Dames, and it was here that he lost
his life, working the machine guns, and he died one of the most
brave and gallant gentleman it has ever been my honour to know. A
fine capable officer who put his duty before everything, and by his
self-sacrificing devotion set a splendid example to us all. By his
death the Regt. has suffered a terrible loss and the Army has lost
a most capable officer, who would have gone far in his profession.”
His commanding officer. Major E. V. B. Green, wrote: “Your son died
a soldier’s death in the forefront of the fighting on the 14th. I
have sent you in a separate package a testament which was found on
him, and I am sorry that there is nothing more to send. We have lost
a much-loved comrade who we all felt had a promising career before
him, in fact, perhaps I cannot do better than quote to you the words
in which his name has gone forward for mention in despatches. ‘Lieut.
and Adjutant the Hon. H. L. Pelham. I saw this officer two or three
times under heavy fire conveying orders and encouraging the troops. He
was killed in an advanced position, assisting with the machine guns,
several of the detachment having been knocked out. In him the Army have
lost a most promising officer. His work during mobilisation and during
the campaign has been deserving of the highest praise.’” and again
later: “I wish I could give you further details regarding your son,
but the circumstances of the battle on the 14th, the first day of the
Aisne, were such that we were not able to hold to the foremost ground
to which we got that day, and indeed although we have been here a month
to-day, we have never got back on the actual ground on which your son
was killed. I am being perfectly honest with you, as I judge you wish
me to be. We know where your son fell, in the forefront of the battle,
but we do not know as yet where he lies. The Germans, doubtless, have
buried him, and when we move forward we shall, I hope, be able to give
you fuller particulars. I am very pleased to be able to tell you that I
have heard to-day that the President of the French Republic has awarded
your son the Legion of Honour. For this he was recommended previous
to his death. It will be, I am sure, a solace to you to know that his
worth has received this recognition. Like many of his forbears, he
has given his life for his country, and has not lived in vain.... No!
It was not at Moulines. The action was fought between a place called
Vendresse and Cerney, and your son was killed just on the edge of the
latter place. He was with Mr. Dashwood in a farmhouse with the machine
guns when the building was destroyed by a shell.... Mr. Dashwood tells
me that his death was instantaneous, and that he was struck by a piece
of shell and was thus saved from suffering.” He was awarded the Croix
de Chevalier of the Legion of Honour “for conspicuous gallantry in the
field between 23 Aug. and 31 Aug.”
[Illustration: =Hon. Herbert L. Pelham.=]
=PELLETT, GEORGE ALBERT VICTOR=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10403
(Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=LEIGH-PEMBERTON, THOMAS EDWARD GEOFFREY=, Lieut., 13th Battn.
(Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._
of Wilfred Leigh-Pemberton, of Wrinsted Court, Sittingbourne,
Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Alice Augusta, dau. of the late
Capt. David Rolland Erskine, 92nd Highlanders [2nd _s._ of Sir
David Erskine, of Cambo, 1st Bart.], and grandson of Sir Edward
Leigh-Pemberton, of Torry Hill and Wrinsted, co. Kent, K.C.B.;
_b._ Wrinsted Court aforesaid, 15 Nov. 1893; educ. Rugby and
Christ Church, Oxford, where he was in the O.T.C.; was, at the outbreak
of war, learning business with the firm of Antony Gibbs & Sons;
appointed 2nd Lieut. in the Kensingtons, 12 May, 1914, and promoted
Lieut. 1 Sept. following; volunteered for foreign service on the
outbreak of war in Aug.; went to France at the beginning of Nov., and
was killed in action near Laventie, 11 Jan. 1915; _unm._ Buried at
Estaires. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. F. G. Lewis, wrote: “I
feel I must write and tell you how all my officers will mourn his loss
most deeply. His capacity and his popularity made everybody like him;
he was a real good fellow in every way, and he has made a gap which we
can never quite fill. I am sorrier than I can say”; and Major-Gen. Sir
A. Turner: “He was a most excellent and conscientious young officer,
and a great loss to his battn., in which he was a great favourite.”
Capt. Thompson also wrote: “He was a really good officer, always
cheerful, and of the very greatest assistance to me in the trying
work of the trenches. The battn. has lost a good officer and all the
officers a valued friend”; and Sergt. Stiles: “Lieut. Leigh-Pemberton
was very much liked and respected by every man he came in touch with.
One of our bravest officers; he considered his men; in fact, he used to
take four hours duty whilst his sergeant slept, and the sergeant used
to take two hours’ duty whilst he (the Lieut.) slept. He would at any
time carry the pack of any man who was knocked up. I’m sure any of our
men would have followed him through fire and water. His death was a
great shock to the whole battn.” He was fond of sports of all kinds and
hunted a small pack of harriers of his own.
[Illustration: =T. E. G. Leigh-Pemberton.=]
=PENDALL, WILLIAM ALBERT=, Private, No. 13657, 13th (Service)
Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Albert Pendall (now
serving in France as a Gunner with the R.G.A.), by his wife, Mary Jane
(14, Usk Road, York Road, Battersea), dau. of Henry Brown; _b._
Wandsworth Common, 8 Dec. 1898; educ. St. John’s Schools, Battersea;
was a Butcher; enlisted, 17 April, 1915; went to France, 4 Oct. 1915,
and was killed in action there, 9 Dec. 1915; _unm._
=PENDER, JAMES (HAMISH) GRANGER GEILS=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd. attd.
2nd Battn. The Gordon Highlanders, eldest _s._ of Major James
Pender, of Ardnoe, St. Catherine’s, co. Argyle, 8th Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders, by his wife, Janet Helen Maude, dau. of the
late Thomas Geils, of Geilston and Ardmore, Dumbartonshire; _b._
St. Catherine’s, 19 July, 1892; educ. Larchfield Academy, Helensburgh;
Edinburgh Academy, and Edinburgh University; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the
3rd (Reserve) Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 17 Oct. 1914; went to France,
13 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle between 11–13
March, 1915; _unm._ A brother officer wrote: “He was shot through
the head on the morning of the 11th trying to urge his men to keep
their heads down and take cover, and his death was instantaneous. He
died for his country and no mistake, and long will we all remember his
cheery face”; and another: “He died thinking only of his men’s safety
and not of his own, and was one of the most gallant among many gallant
officers who died that day. As we were being enfiladed the men were in
a very dangerous position, he shouted to them to get right in, as they
could not hear, he stood up and signalled to them. He was shot through
the head.”
[Illustration: =James G. G. Pender.=]
=PENFOLD, GEORGE HENRY=, Acting Chief Petty Officer, 164841,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914; _m._
=PENGELLEY, HAROLD=, Private, No. 9707, 1st Battn. East Surrey
Regt., _s._ of Samuel Pengelley, of 2, York Road, Uxbridge; served
with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 6 Nov. 1914, of
wounds received in action.
=PENMAN, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 10614, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards;
_b._ Falkirk, enlisted 8 Sept. 1914, aged 24; served with the
Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.
=PENN, ALFRED EDWARD=, A.B., R.N.R., 2453A, 3rd _s._ of
Stephen Penn (died 1 March, 1912), by his wife, Elizabeth; _b._
Deal, 17 Sept. 1891; lost with his brother on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept.
1914: _unm._
=PENN, JOSEPH LIVELY=, Private, No. 2879, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, 5th _s._ of William John Penn, of Leamington Spa, by
his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Patrick Lively of Liverpool; _b._
Leamington Spa, 23 Feb. 1882; educ. there; enlisted in the Coldstreams
in Aug. 1899; served for a short period in the South African War, and
with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from early in Sept.
to 29 Oct. 1914, on which latter date he was killed in action at Ypres.
He _m._ 1906, Anne, dau. of William Oldham, of Sheffield, and had
two sons: Joseph, _b._ 1 June, 1907, and Ernest, _b._ 1 Sept.
1910.
=PENN, LEWIS SYDNEY=, A.B., R.N.R., 2451A, 2nd _s._ of
Stephen Penn (died 1 March, 1912), by his wife, Elizabeth; _b._
Deal, 1 July, 1889; was serving with his two brothers on board H.M.S.
Cressy when that vessel was torpedoed by submarines off the coast of
Holland, 22 Sept. 1914; _unm._ The elder brother, Hubert, was
saved after being two hours in the water.
=DOUGLAS-PENNANT, HON. CHARLES=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, 3rd _s._ of George Sholto Gordon, 2nd Lord Penrhyn, and
yr. _s._ by his 2nd wife, Gertrude Jessie (37, Lennox Gardens,
S.W.), yst. dau. of the Rev. Henry Glynne, Rector of Hawarden;
_b._ at Wicken, Northants, 7 Oct. 1877; educ. Evelyn’s, Eton, and
Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Coldstream Guards, 8 Sept. 1897, and
promoted Lieut. 5 Feb. 1899; served in South African War, 1899–1902;
took part in the advance on Kimberley, including actions at Belmont,
Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein; operations in the Orange Free
State, including actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Vet River (5–6
May) and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal, May-June, 1900,
including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill (11–12
June); operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov.
1900, including actions at Belfast (26–27 Aug.), operations in Orange
River Colony, Nov. 1900, and in Cape Colony, Nov. 1900 to 31 May, 1902
(twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 26 Jan. 1900, and 10
Sept. 1901]; Queen’s medal with six clasps, King’s medal with two
clasps); was A.D.C. to Major-Gen., 8th Division, 3rd Army Corps, and
to Major-Gen. 8th Division, Irish Command (Sir Reginald Pole-Carew),
9 Nov. 1903 to 1905; retired and joined the Reserve of Officers, 22
Feb. 1905; rejoined his regt. on the outbreak of war; went to France,
11 Sept. 1914; was reported missing after the fighting near Gheluvelt,
29 Oct. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action
there that day. He _m._ at St. Michael’s, Chester Square, 28 Jan.
1905, Lady Edith Anne, née Dawson (Soham House, Newmarket), dau. of
Vesey, 2nd Earl of Dartrey. His elder brother, Capt. the Hon. G. H.
Douglas-Pennant was killed in action, 11 March, 1915, and his nephew,
Lieut. the Hon. A. G. S. Douglas-Pennant, Grenadier Guards, was
reported wounded and missing, 29 Oct. 1914.
[Illustration: =Hon. C. Douglas-Pennant.=]