Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Son of Luke FENWICK and Isabella nee FAWCETT

Brother of Cecil Fenwick, of Ashfield House, Ebchester, England.

The late Pte. W. E. Fenwick, who was recently killed in action in France, enlisted from Renmark about twelve months ago. He was living in Renmark for two or three years prior to enlisting and was in the employ of Mr. F. Saies at the Cash Store, during which period he boarded at Mr. Turnbull’s, of whose family he was an old friend. Before coming to Renmark, the late Pte. Fenwick was at Broken Hill, but his home was at Consett, Durham, England, from which town Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull and family came out to Australia, and it  was at Consett that the Turnbull’s saw Pte. Fenwick grow up, so that the sad news of his death came as a great shock to them. The most recent letters received from the deceased soldier intimate that he had obtained four days leave, when he visited his parents in the old home at Consett just prior to going over to France, in which country he cannot have been long  before he met his death. Pte. Fenwick was about 26 years of age and attended the Methodist Church, where occasionally he played the organ. His bereaved parents have now lost  two sons at the war.