Description | File of correspondence regarding Cook (S) John Henry Penprase who is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, UK, and Trimmer John Henry Penprase and Seaman Edwin Pentreath, who are both buried in Penzance (Paul) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Main topics include: correspondence regarding request from next of kin to erect a memorial or kerb commemorating Cook Penprase and Commission’s decision to commemorate the missing of the Royal Navy on a memorial following the war; erection of a small marble disc commemorating Cook Penprase on the grave of his father, Trimmer J.H. Penprase; correspondence from next of kin regarding the neglected condition of Trimmer Penprase’s grave after the Commission agreed to its future maintenance; request from next of kin to bury Trimmer Penprase’s son, Cook J.H. Penprase, in the grave in the event of his death while serving with the Royal Navy; request from next of kin for assistance with the erection of a headstone or kerb commemorating Cook Penprase; request from next of kin for permission to take over the maintenance of Trimmer Penprase’s grave; request from next of kin for permission to assume responsibility for the maintenance of Seaman Pentreath’s grave. |
Content Note | Includes: Handwritten letter from Mrs. Henrietta Pentreath (formerly Penprase), widow of the casualty, to the IWGC enquiring whether the temporary wooden cross marking Trimmer Penprase’s grave had been replaced with a permanent headstone and if a kerb was to be added, dated 14 February 1923; handwritten letter from Mrs. H. Pentreath to the IWGC Secretary regarding the neglected condition of Trimmer Penprase’s grave after the Commission stated it would be maintained on their behalf, dated 26 July 1934; internal note from H.F. Robinson, IWGC Director of Works, stating that the grave of Trimmer Penprase had been maintained until 1932 until the Area Inspector reported that the relatives were caring for the grave, and to add the grave to the existing maintenance agreement, dated 30 July 1934; copy letter from Mrs. Henrietta Pentreath (formerly Penprase), mother of the casualty, to the IWGC Secretary requesting a memorial stone or kerb with inscription commemorating Cook Penprase, dated 25 September 1939; copy letter from Mrs. Henrietta Pentreath to the War Graves Directorate enquiring whether a kerb commemorating Cook Penprase and his father, Trimmer J.H. Penprase, could be erected on Trimmer Penprase’s grave, dated 5 April 1942; letter from F. Tyrrell, IWGC Secretary, to Mrs. H. Pentreath explaining that the Commission were likely to erect a memorial commemorating the missing of the Royal Navy, which would include the name of Cook Penprase, dated 23 April 1942; copy letter from Major F.E. Dowse Brenan, IWGC, to the IWGC Director of Works reporting that a small marble circular disc commemorating Cook Penprase was laid on the grave, dated 15 May 1942; handwritten letter from Mrs. H. Pentreath to the IWGC requesting permission to take over the upkeep of Trimmer Penprase’s grave, in which her other son, Seaman Kenneth James Pentreath, was also buried, as well as the grave of her brother-in-law, Seaman Edwin Pentreath, because the graves had not been well maintained by the Commission, dated 18 August 1942. |