In St. Mary's churchyard in Portchester, Hampshire, is the Commonwealth War Grave of Private Frank Arthur Penn of The Pioneer Corps.

Our good friend L from Hampshire took this photo, in the churchyard of St. Mary’s in Portchester, of the Commonwealth War Grave of Private Frank Arthur Penn of The Pioneer Corps.

Private Penn died in the Liverpool Road Military Hospital in Chester on the 20 January 1942.  The hospital was a wartime one in use from 1940 to 1945.

Frank Arthur Penn was the son of Mr and Mrs W. F. Penn of Wicor, Fareham.  William Penn died on 10 July 1948.  It is unusual to find the name of a father in the personal inscription on the headstone of a Commonwealth War Grave.

The Commonwealth War Grave of Private Frank Arthur Penn at St. Mary's in Portchester.