DEATH OF P.O. F. G. FENNELL
REPORTED MISSING AT NARVIK
News has been received of the death on active service of Petty Officer Frederick George Fennell, the son of the late Mr. John Fennell, of 89, Tewkesbury-road, Cheltenham. Petty Officer Fennell, who was 48 years of age, had previously been reported missing at Narvik. Educated at Swindon - road School, he worked at the Cheltenham General Post Office as a telegraph boy for about two years before joining the Navy at the age of 16.
GREAT WAR SERVICE He served throughout the Great War, retiring in 1935 with the rank of petty officer after 22 years' service. He was called up at the outbreak of the present war, and served for some time in H.M.S. Hood, before being transferred to H.M.S. Aster, in which he was serving at the time of his death. Shortly after the last war Petty Officer Fennell married Mrs. Cissie Swann, and on his retirement made his home at Portsmouth:
FENNELI- May 23, 1939 John Fennell, late 89 Tewkesbury-road, aged 70. —Funeral Saturday, 10.30, from 31 Swindon street.
On December 31st.[1936] at General Hospital, Cheltenham, Amelia, beloved wife of Jack Fennell, 89 Tewkesbury-road.
FATAL STREET FALL Inquest On Cheltenham Woman An elderly woman's fall in the street which led to her death was described at a Cheltenham inquest on Tuesday. The Coroner (Mr. J. D. Lane) held the inquiry on Mrs. Eliza Amelia Fennell, aged 63, of 89 Tewkesbury-road, Cheltenham, and he returned a verdict of accidental death. A son, William John Fennell, of Depot House, St. James'-street, Cheltenham, said that his mother had told him that on December 12 she went out shopping and had slipped as she was crossing Worcester-street. She complained of a pain in her thigh, and on the day following the accident she was taken to Cheltenham General Hospital, where she died on December 31 (1936] Mr. James Betts, a lodger with Mr. and Mrs. Fennell, said he warned Mrs. Fennell before she went out that the road was very slippery. In a short while she was brought back to the house by two women and was subsequently put to bed. She told him that she had slipped. Dr. Thomas Maurig Williams, house surgeon at Cheltenham General Hospital, said Mrs. Fennell had a fracture of the right thigh and was suffering from broncho-pneumonia when he saw her on December 30. She was then dying. Death was due to broncho-pneumonia brought on by the fracture.
