PENFOLD, Harold Lashmar
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | Royal Engineers |
| Born: | Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 20 December 1885 |
| Home Town: | Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Trinity College |
| Occupation: | Civil Engineer |
| Died: | Portland, Victoria, Australia, 27 December 1955, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremated remains scattered at cemetery |
| Memorials: | Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Captain, Officer, Royal Engineers |
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Son of Oliver PENFOLD and Mary Louise nee BAYNE
August 1916 - Letters received by Dr. Penfold, of Bendigo, on Monday brought news that his son Lieutenant H. Lashmar Penfold. R.E., was wounded in the right wrist and left thigh on the night of July 2 last in a raid on the enemy's trenches at Ypres by the Irish Guards and sappers of the Royal Engineers. Within 48 hours after being hit he was in a hospital at Newcastle- on-Tyne, and doing well.
A brother officer, writing the day after he was wounded, says:—-"Every one is full of the show he (Penfold) was in, and delighted at the splendid way he acted. His sappers are absolutely full of it, and the infantry say he was the bravest man they ever saw." During the fight one of the Irish Guards was being held by the throat by one of the Boches and yelled for assistance, and Lieutenant Penfold, although wounded, went, and after a considerable struggle got the guardsman free, and took his assailant prisoner, getting his rifle and bayonet as a trophy. His friends in Melbourne will be glad to know that he was able to write on July 10 in good spirits, and was hoping to join his relations in London soon.
Husband of Erica Clarissa PENFOLD nee BLUNDEN
The marriage of Mr Harold Lashmar Penfold, Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, son of Dr. Oliver Penfold, of Bendigo, to Miss Erica Blunden, daughter of Mrs. Blunden, of Putney, takes place today - 21 October 1917.
By the last mail from London news was received of the marriage of Lieutenant Lashmar Penfold, of the Royal Engineers, son of Dr. O. Penfold, and only brother of Miss Dorothy Penfold. He was married on the 21st August last at St. John's Church Putney, to Miss Erica Clarissa Blunden. younger daughter of Mrs. Blunden of 49 Deodar road, Putney, London. The Rev. H. Sillietoe officiated. The bridegroom's best man was an old college chum, Mr. Alan Seeper, son of R. Seeper, Warden of Trinity College, Melbourne, and Lieutenant. Colonel Bayne, his uncle, was present at the ceremony, just before leaving for France. Other guests included Miss Wilmot Watson, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Gale, formerly of Bendigo. At the time of his death he resided at 10 Wanalta Road, Glenhuntly, Vic.