Private Thomas Pennington
8683 1/5th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 55 Div
Killed in Action 27th September 1916, aged 20
Lived at 1 Hebrew Square
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France
Burnley Express 14th October 1916

Enlisted Feb 1916 and connected with St Mary's RC Church and School;Uncles Pte John Pennington (Boer War) and Pte William Foley and brother-in law Pte Walter Jackson serving .Killed by a German shell.Son of Margaret & Bolton Pennington. Weaver at Grays Livingstone Mill and a member of the Catholic Boys Brigade. He is commemorated on the roll of honour at St John's, Ivy St.
He was killed on 27 September 1916 aged 20 years.He was engaged on road mending following a spell in the trenches, when a shell dropped on the working party. I have subsequently found out that he was south of Albert and four others were killed in the same incident - John Carroll also from Burnley, Herbert Airey from Bolton, Arthur Ogden from Oswaldtwistle and Wilson Shepherd from Bolton.

(courtesy of his niece Maureen Hesketh)