Cromer Servicemen and Servicewomen in the First World War

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Name	Cyril Frederick Hamilton Fenner
Notes	Dr Fenner, Cyril's father, was a GP at Cromer from 1884 to 1899; he was the Medical Officer in charge at Cromer Cottage Hospital and was in partnership with Dr. Dent from 1889 to 1899. He had moved away from Cromer prior to the First World War but doubtless the two sons he lost in the war had grown up in the town. Cyril's brother Alfred died a year after his brother as the result of an accident at sea. Cyril had been born in Cromer in 1888 and educated at Suffield Park school (a private school of that era). He then went to Felstead College. He was farming in Chile when the war broke out; he obtained a commission in the Scots Guards in 1915 and was wounded near Ypres later that year. His commission was confirmed in the London Gazette on 26th February 1916. He was killed in action at Lesboeufs on the Somme on 24th September whilst commanding a Company of the 2nd Scots Guards. The Guards had attacked Lesboeufs on the 15th September 1916 and captured eight days later, so it can be assumed that Cyril was missing, believed killed, at the end of this action.
Service Information	Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. He was killed in action on 24th September 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 7D.
Date of Birth	1888
Date of Death	24/09/1916
Source	Roll of Honour, War Records