| Regimental number | 2263 |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Other Names | PENGELLY |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Labourer |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 21 |
| Height | 5' 6.5" |
| Weight | 126 lbs |
| Next of kin | Father, J. Smith, 46 Willesley Road, Hampstead, London, England |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | |
| Place of enlistment | Rosehill, New South Wales |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 5th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/22/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 57th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Date of death | |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 29), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 164 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: James and Liza (nee ROBERTS) PENGELLY (married 6 June 1883) |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Taken on strength, 5th Bn, Gallipoli, 5 August 1915. Disembarked Alexandria from Lemnos, 7 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation). Transferred to 57th Bn, 17 February 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 17 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 23 June 1916. Wounded in action, 28 January 1917 (high explosive wound, face); transferred to 8th General Hospital, Rouen, 31 January 1917; to England, 3 February 1917, and admitted to War Hospital, Aldershot, 3 February 1917. Discharged on furlough, 26 April 1917, to report to No. 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, 11 May 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 20 June 1917; rejoined 57th Bn, 13 July 1917. Killed in action, 26 September 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
| Miscellaneous details | Real name: Henry James PENGELLY |
Postal Address:
Po Box 7916
Canberra BC 2610, Australia
Street Address:
Northcott Drive,
Campbell, ACT 2600
