Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 22

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 EVELYN ANTHONY CAVE PENNY (Lt)

Lef SES 1915

Roll Number 1422 Died 08:06:1918

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1912

Where PALESTINE Serving with QUEEN VICTORIA’S OWN GUIDES

Age 20

Buried British Cemetery, Near El Jibel, Ramia, Hammerkaz, Isreal Remembered

The Ramleh Military Cemetery, Isreal, The St. John’s Parish Church Memorial, Lusdon, Devon, The Cave Penny Memorial Cross, Dartmoor, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial The eldest son of a Torquay family, born in 1898 and a fine sportsman at the School. Captain of Boats in 1915 and a member of the School IV, he was also an athlete. An Officer in the School OTC and a School Prefect. He was in the Upper Moderns Form. He gained an Indian Army Cadetship in June 1916, passing 23rd out of 67 candidates and went to Wellington College in India. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Queens Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides Infantry (Lumsden’s) in November 1916. Posted to Baghdad in November 1917 he was made up to Lieutenant and transferred to Egypt in April 1918 and moved up to the Palestine front immediately in charge of a Company. There he was killed by an enemy shell during fierce fighting. A brother officer stated: - ‘I hear he did exceptionally fine work in bombing the Turks out of the billets. Then he was killed by a shell’. Another officer was certain he would have been decorated had he lived.