Able Seaman J/35931 Henry Pennington

BMD details:
Birth Date: 6 Feb 1897 Buried 11/03/1919 Age taken from headstone

Family details:
Next of kin - father Paul of 106 Elephant Lane, Thatto Heath, St Helens.

Census details:
1901 - 4 years old Harry is living at 11 Elephant Lane, Thatto Heath, St Helens with parents Paul (38), Mary E (33) and three siblings: Mary E (12), Joseph (9), Alice (2). Also at the address is servant Elizabeth Bates (17). 1911 - Sees 14 years old 'Glass Cutter' Harry living at 106 Elephant Lane, Thatto Heath, St Helens with parents Paul (48), Mary E (45) and six siblings: Mary E (22), Joseph (19), Alice (12), Edith Ellen (8), Sarah (7), Stanley (5 mths). Also at the address is servant Gertrude Barker (19).

Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=20]Remembered on St John the Evangelist, Ravenhead War Memorial[/url] Ancestry has the ship as HMS Sable. The headstone, 1901 and 1911 census has forename as Harry. SDGW, CWGC and Ancestry has his forename as Henry.

[pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/hms_sabre_zps67eb59e5.jpg[/pic][caption]H.M.S. Sabre[/caption] HMS Sabre was an Admiralty S-Class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched in September 1918 at the close of World War 1. Built in Scotland by Alex Stephens, and completed by the Fairfield Shipbuilding company in Govan. Commissioned for Fleet service in 1919, she was the first Royal Navy ship to carry this name. [pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/J35931PenningtonHarry2.jpg[/pic] [pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/J35931PenningtonHarry.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Able Seaman Henry Pennington at St Helens Cemetery (Photo courtesy of Jeff Keenan)[/caption]