Sergeant Eric H Pennington

Eric Herbert Pennington, of Merton, Surrey, enlisted in the Northamptonshire Regiment and then volunteered for airborne forces.

Sergeant Pennington successfully completed his parachute training, was posted to 11th Battalion Parachute Regiment, and took part in Operation Market Garden (Arnhem).

Sgt Pennington was killed in action on 19 September 1944, aged 23. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Groesbeek Memorial to the missing.

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