Awards & Winners

Henry Singleton Pennell

Date of Birth 18-June-1874
Place of Birth Dawlish
(United Kingdom, Teignbridge)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Soldier
Henry Singleton Pennell VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was born in 1874 in Dawlish, Devon to Edwin Francis Pennell and his wife Henrietta née Copeland and was educated Eastbourne College, Sussex where there is now a Pennell House.

Awards by Henry Singleton Pennell

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1897


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 20 October, 1897 as Lieutenant of the Sherwood Foresters during the Tirah Campaign.)