Captain The Hon George Henry Douglas-Pennant
The Hon. George Henry Douglas-Pennant was born in Torquay, Devon, United
Kingdom in 1876, the second son of
George Sholto
Gordon, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, and Gertrude Lady Penrhyn, of Penrhyn Castle,
Bangor, Carnarvonshire.
He served in the South African War
(Mentioned in Despatches) and was A.D.C. to Lt. Gen. Sir Leslie Rundle
(Commander-in-Chief, Northern Command), 1903-7.
He was a Captain
in The King's Coy. 1st Bn. Grenadier Guards and became a Casualty of the
Great War when he fell on 11th March 1915.
His brother
Charles
also fell. He was a Lieutenant in the 1st Bn., The Coldstream Guards. He
was 37 and fell on 29th October 1914. He had been a Lt. in the Coldstream Guards 1899-1905 and served in South African War. he was a
Lt. Reserve of Officers from 1911. and a J.P. in 1912.
His uncle, Lieutenant the Hon. Alan George Sholto Douglas-Pennant, of
the Grenadier Guards, also died, in 1914. They are all
commemorated on the war memorial in Wicken, Northamptonshire. Additionly,
he is remembered at the Le Touret Memorial, in France.
 The
Free Lance - May 1, 1915
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