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CAPTAIN T P E FENWICKE CLENNELL Regiment & Unit/Ship: Lothians and Border Horse Died 20 February 1919 Age 32 years old Eldest son of Thomas Clennell Fenwick Clennell, J.P., D.L., of Harbottle Castle, Rothbury, Northumberland, and the late Mrs. Fenwicke Clennell. Thomas Percival Edward Fenwicke-Clennell was born at The Garth, Cockerton, in August 1886, the first son of Thomas Fenwicke-Clennell and his wife, Helen Mary Ann, née Cheese, of Haughton le Skerne, both places now suburbs of Darlington. He lived initially at Cockerton with his two older sisters, Constance and Frances Amy, but the family was established at Harbottle Castle by 1901, with the addition of his two brothers, Geoffrey and Christopher, both born at Alwinton. In the census of 1911, aged 24, single and described as being of private means, he shared lodgings with several other young men in the home of Miss Robson of Gowan Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, a stone's throw from the Jesmond cricket ground. Thomas joined the Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry, a cavalry regiment, two of the squadrons of which left France in November 1916, for the Salonika area of Northern Greece. There they were engaged in patrolling and reconnaissance, besides periods of static, defensive warfare. From November 1917 until the collapse of the opposing Bulgarian Army in autumn 1918 they took part in attacks and 'raiding'. It was during this period that Captain Fenwicke-Clennell died on 20th February 1919, aged 32. He was buried in the Mikra British Cemetery, in the Kalamaria municipality of Thessaloniki, alongside nearly 2,000 others who died in Salonika in the First World War. By the time of the Armistice, his brothers, Geoffrey and Christopher were both serving, the former as a Captain in the 107th Pioneers and the latter as Lieutenant in the 166th Pioneers, both infantry battalions of the Indian Army. Probate 1920: Clennell, Thomas Percival Edward Fenwicke, of Harbottle Castle, Rothbury, Northumberland, died 20 February 1919 in Salonica. Administration London 04 February to Thomas Clennell Fenwicke Clennel, landowner. Effects £326 6s. 8d.
