Pennings, Petrus Arnoldus

Date of birth:: January 22nd, 1927 (Oss/Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands)
Date of death:: April 26th, 1948 (Makassar/Celebes (Sulawesi) Indonesia)
Buried on:: Dutch War Cemetery Candi
Row: B. Grave: 63.
Service number:: 270122202
Nationality:: Dutch

Biography

Conscript soldier, assistant quartermaster, 2nd Company, 5th Battalion, Princess Irene Guard Regiment. Reported for duty at the Menno van Coehoorn Barracks in Arnhem. Departed from Rotterdam on 26 November 1947 on the MS Kota-Inten bound for the Dutch East Indies.

With the exception of the 2nd Company, the 5th Battalion GRPI was deployed on Sumatra. However, the 2nd Company, to which Pennings belonged, was deployed as reinforcement for the 5th Regiment Stoottroepen on Java and remained there throughout the conflict. After arrival, the battalion spent several months training in Makassar, where Petrus Arnoldus Pennings was killed in a shooting accident.

Petrus Arnoldus Pennings was initially buried at the Field of Honour in Makassar. Following a request from the Indonesian government to reduce the 22 Dutch fields of honour throughout the archipelago to five, all located on Java, he was reburied in 1968 at the Candi Field of Honour in Semarang.

His name appears on the “De Brabantse Soldaat” monument in Waalre.

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Sources

Photo 1: Oorlogsgravenstichting
Photo 2: Oorlogsgravenstichting
- https://oorlogsgravenstichting.nl/personen/116519/petrus-arnoldus-pennings