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Private Norman Frederick Fenner

 

Number: 9668

Company: 45th (Dublin) Company, 13th Battalion

ENLISTMENT

Date: 9 January 1900

Place: Newbridge

Age: 20 years

Trade of calling: Nil

Place of birth: In the Parish of Cork, near the Town of Cork, in the County of Cork

Family: Single. Father Henry, mother Ada, of Rockspring Terrace, Cork.

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 6 1/4". Complexion fair, eyes brown, hair fair.

Religion: Other Protestant

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 13 March 1900

Campaigns: South Africa 1899-1901

Service medal, clasps and other awards: South Africa Medal. Cape Colony and Orange Free State clasps.

DEATH

Date: 31 May 1900

Place: Lindley

Cause: Killed in action

Commemorated: Fenner is buried in the Lindley Cemetery (see image below). He is commemorated on the Lindley Cemetery Memorial and the Yeomanry Kop Memorial at Lindley, and and on the St Patrick's Cathedral Memorial in Dublin.

 

 

 

Initially there was some uncertainty as to Norman Fenner's fate, reports suggesting that his brother Henry Fenner had been killed (see articles below).

 

Irish Times, 8 June 1900

 

Cork Daily Herald, 11 June 1900

This page last updated 12 July 2024.