John Alexander Pennell

Rank:

Gunner

Regimental number:

322951, 270631

Unit at enlistment:

12th Brigade C.F.A., 54th Battery

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Kent

Birth city:

Gravesend

Address at enlistment:

45 Spring Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

45 Spring Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Farmer

Religious denominations:

Roman Catholic

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

BX December 4, 1917

Two Veterans Arrived Home – More Expected to Come to the City Today or Tuesday

Two Brantford veterans returned home Saturday afternoon. The Soldiers’ Aid Commission and the G.W.V.A. had deputations to meet the 3.52 G.T.R. train from Toronto on Saturday afternoon, expecting to meet H. Blanchard of 53 Oxford Street; H. Churchward, 105 Cayuga; Sergt J. Hardy, 29 Rawdon Street, and A. Lamb, 90 Oxford Street. None of these men however arrived. The Soldiers’ Aid Commission which was represented by Ald. Dowling and Mr. George MacDonald then met the 4.36 T.H. and B. train and on this arrived Privates Blanchard and Hardy. The other two men who were expected had broken their journey at Hamilton and were to return later by radial. The seven other men H.W. Parks, 79 Palace Street; G.B. Ramsay, 6 Spring Street; J. Rumble, 59 Strathcona Avenue; A.H. Selmes, 74 Spring Street; G. Sowers, Ruth Street and A. Waterhouse Oakland, P.O., who are the balance of the party expected last week, will likely arrive sometime today. Further word has been received that five more men will reach Toronto today. They are William Abbott, 103 Sydenham Street; E.G. Hall, 284 St. Paul Avenue; J.A. Pennell, 41 Spring Street; C.E. Warner, 17 Balfour Street.

BX January 23, 1954

John Alexander Pennell, 62 Norfolk Street, south Simcoe, died Saturday at the Norfolk General Hospital. Mr. Pennell was born in England, where he married the former Helen May Steward. He worked as foreman of a basket factory in Rodney, before moving to Simcoe in 1945, where he worked in the Brook Woolen Mills and as a mail contractor. He was a well-known sportsman, and served overseas with the Canadian Army in the First World War. Surviving besides his widow, are one son, Alexander John Pennell, Smithville; three brothers, Lawrence, Brantford; William, Oakville; Arthur, Lambert, Quebec; one sister, Miss Ivy Pennell, Brantford. A brother, Edward, was killed during the Second World War. Mr. Pennell is resting at the Walsh Funeral Home, Simcoe, where the service will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. Interment will be in Brantford.