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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 475

Three: Private W. Penfold, 1/4th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, who was killed in action at the Third Battle of Gaza in November 1917

1914-15 Star (4-3263 Pte. W. Penfold, R. Suss. R); British War and Victory Medals (4-4266 Pte. W. Penfold, R. Suss. R.), the last two with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (3)

Walter Penfold was first saw action in Gallipoli, where he arrived in early December 1915.

He was subsequently killed in action at the Third Battle of Gaza on 6 November 1917, whilst serving in 'C' Company of the 1/4th Battalion. Having seen many of his comrades killed and wounded during the First Battle on 26 March, on the 3 November Private Penfold found himself with the Brigade in the hills before the notorious Khuweilfeh position midway through the Third Battle of Gaza. A final assault on 6 November:

'was strongly held, being bravely and resolutely defended to the last as three companies stormed them with the bayonet: the garrison was annihilated' (Gaza 1917, by Martin Glen, refers).

Aged 21, Penfold was the son of Stephen and Mary Penfold of 'Highlands', Broome Hill, Holmwood, Surrey, and is buried in Beersheba War Cemetery. For further details, see:

https://www.dorkingmuseum.org.uk/private-walter-penfold/


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