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Pte. George Penfold
British Army 2nd Battalion Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
from:Meadvale, Redhill, Surrey
(d.14th July 1916)
George Penfold, my great uncle, was baptised at St John's, Redhill on the 18th January 1880, the youngest son of John and Mary Penfold of Meadvale, Redhill, Surrey. In 1911 he was living with his parents and was a bricklayer. He seems to have been a keen sportsman, playing for both the village football and cricket teams.
When World War 1 started he enlisted at Guildford in the 2nd Battalian, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. He was killed on the 14th July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme but has no grave and his name is listed on the memorial to the missing of the Somme at Thiepval.
In 1993, shortly before their deaths, his nephews, my father and uncle then both in their late eighties, remembered how he had cried when he had to return after his last leave because he did not want to go back.
