No. 2919/200741   4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment, who died on 20th July 1916 aged 21.

David has no known grave and is remembered at Thiepval Memorial

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David was born in Helmingham 1895, son of Edgar and Ellen Denny, and later lived at the Red Lodge Hasketon.

He died during the Battle of the Somme whilst fighting at High Wood.

Before the war he worked as a ‘Boy on Farm’ (1911 census).

Personal details

David and his brother Frank were both killed in WW1 – see separate entry.

Father Edgar Denny was born in Ashbocking in 1859 and worked as an agricultural labourer and his mother was Ellen Annie Denny (nee Ruffles) [B. Chelmondiston, 1860].  David (B. Helmingham 1895) was their 6th child out of 10 the others being James [B. Otley, 1882], Walter [B. Helmingham, 1885] Thomas [B. Helmingham, 1889] Frank [B. Helmingham, 1891] Hilda [B. Helmingham, 1893], Frederick [B. Helmingham, 1897], Ellen [B. Hoo, 1899] and twins Madeline and Noel [B. Hasketon, 1902].  This suggests sometime in the late 1890s they left Helmingham, moved to Hoo, and then finally to Hasketon at about 1902.

War service.

We have few details of David’s war service. The Medal Roll index indicates he was eligible for the Victory and British medals, which indicated he entered France after December 1915.

David’s death on 20th July 1916 indicates he was killed along with 4 other Hasketon members of the 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in an attack on High Wood during the Battle of the Somme.   (See separate section on the Battle of the Somme).