PENNINGTON, Charles
| Service Number: | 3544 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 August 1915, 3.5 years Royal Navy |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Dental Details: AIF |
| Born: | St Olave, Bermondsey, District of London, England , 26 December 1881 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Steward |
| Died: | Cooks Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 24 March 1945, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW GENERAL-27. 30. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3544, 1st Infantry Battalion, 3.5 years Royal Navy | |
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| 5 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3544, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3544, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Sydney | |
| 6 May 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Dental Details: AIF | |
| 17 Dec 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3544, Dental Details: AIF, 2nd MD, medically unfit, varicose veins |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting peacefully but anonymously at Sandgate Cemetery.
76 years ago today, on the 26th March 1945, Private Charles Pennington, Australian Army Medical Corps Dental Service (Reg No-3544), ship steward from 159 Darby Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales and Railway Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W., father of four (Alfred Charles, Ada Mary, Frank Edward, Amelia Harriet), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 63. GENERAL-27. 30.
Born at St Olave, Bermondsey, district of London on the 26th December 1881 (as Salvatore Charles Laudicino) to Salvatore Laudicino and Jane Anne/Ellen nee Wingfield; husband of Amelia Eliza Pennington nee Gibbons (married 23.4.1905 at St. Jame's Church, Walthamstow, Essex, England, died 1941), Charles enlisted August 1915 with the 1st Battalion at Warwick Farm, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 17.7.1916 (varicose veins, left leg), Charles returned home November 1918, being discharged medically unfit on the 17th December 1918.
I have not located Mr Pennington’s name inscribed on any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
Many thanks again to Michelle Foster for the extensive family history to ascertain definitely that Charles served with the 1st A.I.F.
I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the unmarked gravesite January 2021, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
I will be submitting an application to DVA asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip to restore honour and dignity to this Forgotten Digger.
Lest We Forget.
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