More about George Lawrence Penny

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour.

George Penny   17447   Royal Engineers

Tragic Death of Returned Soldier.

George Penny (27), fireman, who resided at 85 Coupar Street, Lochee, was crushed to death at Inchture Railway Station on Monday.  He was employed as fireman on a steam lorry belonging to Geo. Will, Ltd., coal and firewood merchants, Fairmuir, and the fatality occurred while the lorry was being backed towards some railway waggons at the station.  Penny was leaning over the side of the lorry directing the driver, and before he was able to regain a position of safety the lorry ran up close to the side of the waggons, and the unfortunate man was horribly crushed about the head and body, death being almost instantaneous.  The body was afterwards removed to Dundee.  Penny, who was married, was recently demobilised, having gone through the war almost from the beginning without a scratch.

Dundee People’s Journal 12th April 1919

DUNDEE LORRY-DRIVER’S DEATH AT INCHTURE.

The circumstances surrounding the death at Inchture Station of George Penny, steam lorry driver, 86 Coupar Street, Dundee, were inquired into by Sheriff Sym and a jury yesterday at Perth.  Evidence showed that deceased was employed in the unloading of manure from a railway waggon on to a tractor, and that he had been caught between two vehicles and crushed.  Dr Thom, Dundee, who had been summoned, pronounced death to have been due to rupture of the internal organs.  Death, she thought, would be instantaneous.

Dundee People’s Journal 3rd May 1919