Tom's Story.
Birkenhead News 11 September 1915SERGEANT INSTRUCTOR
Dies of Wounds.
BELONGED TO THE “GREYS.”
Mr. and Mrs Frederick Penney, of 4, Glover Street, have received information from the War Office that their third son, Sergeant-Instructor Thomas Penney, of the Machine Gun Section of the 1/4th Cheshire Regiment, has died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles. Sergeant Penney joined the “Greys” about six years ago, and possessed a “star” for the first four years’ service. He was educated at the Woodlands School, and prior to the war was a clerk in the General Life Assurance Society’s office in Liverpool. Before the Battalion went to the Dardanelles he had taken courses of training in gunnery at Hythe, and had obtained his first class and instructor’s certificates for machine gun work. He was wounded on August 16th and died in hospital at Malta.
His elder brother Harry, is pioneer-sergeant in the same battalion, with which he has been for over sixteen years, and possesses the long service medal.