Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 91

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name BERNARD WILLOUGHBY PENNY (Sec Lt)

Lef SES 1914

Roll Number 1237 Died 18:08:1917

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1906

Where DOZINGHEIM, FLANDERS Serving with 2ND, ROYAL FUSILIERS

Age 22

Buried Dozingheim Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Belgium Remembered King’s College London Chapel Memorial, St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and the Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born 1895 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the elder of two SES brothers, sons of a medical doctor. Despite a very long School career there is little on record, he was in the Shell Form on leaving. Despite the war threatening, he went up to King’s College, London as a Theological Student in 1914, passed his Preliminaries and worked for four months at St. George’s Hospital, Plumpstead ‘in the management of boys working on munitions at Woolwich Arsenal’. In November 1915 he enlisted as a Private in the London Regiment (Artists Rifles) and two years later was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, the City of London Regiment (The Royal Fusiliers) in March 1917. Shipped out to France, he was badly wounded in Flanders, and died soon afterwards. ‘On August 17th he was in a front line trench with his Company between 6.30 and 7.30 am, when a shell burst close to him. He received four wounds, in the right arm, two in the left, and at the back of the right shoulder, the last being the most serious. He was taken quickly to the advanced dressing station and from there by railway and motor-ambulance to Dozingheim Casualty Clearing Station, where he died on the afternoon of the 18th August. His cheery disposition, manly straightforwardness and utter fearlessness in danger had endeared him to all ranks’ (His Colonel).