Fenner, AT
(1899 - 1917)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
26th October 1899
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1913 - 1915
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
75 Kent House Road, Beckenham
REGIMENT
North Staffordshire Regiment
FINAL RANK:
Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
8th December 1917
AGE AT DEATH:
18
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Abbeville
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension III F 8
Lieutenant Alan Thomas Fenner
Born on October 26th 1899, Alan was the only son among four children born to draper’s shop worker George Fenner and his wife, Ellen. He came to the College from the Prep at the start of 1913, and was a member of the cricket 2nd XI in the summer of 1915. At the end of that year he left, and the following year, whilst still aged 16, was accepted as a member of the Cadet Corps of the Artists’ Rifles.
In March of the following year, still aged just 17, he was granted a commission in the North Staffordshire Regiment, and in May went out to France attached to the 2/6th Battalion. Later that year he was engaged in the fighting at Bourlon Wood, near Cambrai, when he was shot through the lung. He died as a result in hospital at Abbeville just over a week later, on December 8th 1917, six weeks after turning 18.
