Hon Charles Douglas-Pennant
Hon. Charles Douglas-Pennant was born in Wicken, Northamptonshire,
United Kingdom in 1877 to Gertrude and George Sholto Gordon' Baron
Penrhyn.
Lieutenant the Hon. Charles W. Douglas Pennant, Coldstream Guards, is
unofficially reported to have been killed in action at Gneiuvelt last
October 29th (1914). He had previously been officially reported as
missing. The third son of the second Lord Penrhyn, he was born in 1877,
being educated at Eton and Sandhurst.
From 1899 to 1905 he held a lieutenant’s commission in the Coldstream
Guards, and with them he served with distinction throughout the South
African War.
In 1905 he married Lady Edith Anne, the eldest daughter of the Earl
of Dartrey, and in that year resigned his commission.
Since 1911 he had been a lieutenant in the Reserve of Officers, and
on the outbreak of war was re-gazetted to the 1st Battalion of the
Coldstream Guards, with his former rank.
His brother, Captain the
Hon. G. Douglas Pennant and uncle
Lieutenant the Hon. Alan George
Sholto Douglas-Pennant were also killed in the Great War. They
are all commemorated on the war memorial in Wicken, Northamptonshire.
Headstone for Charles in the Perth China Wall Cemetery
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