547 men lost their lives on the 1st August 1918. Major Claude Quayle Lewis Penrose of the Royal Garrison Artillery died on this day. He was 27 years old and was the son of Harry Hugh and Mary Penrose, of Kinsale, Ireland. He lived at Deepcut Bungalow, Frimley Green, Surrey and had been educated at the United Services College and the R.M.A., Woolwich. As well as the award of the Military Cross he had twice been Mentioned in Dispatches.
The London Gazette incorrectly notes his date of death as the 18th August, and his regiment as the Royal Field Artillery. He was though, commanding the 245th Siege Battery, RGA. He is buried in Esquelbecq Military Cemetery in France.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry (MIC, WO 363)
Officers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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I was so pleased, just now, to discover this reference to Major Claude Penrose, a cousin of my maternal grandmother. He was his parents' only child and his mother, Mary Penrose nee Lewis, wrote a biography of her (extraordinarily handsome) boy, of which I own a precious copy.
Regards,
Jo Killmister
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