Undated Photograph of Lt. Raymond B. Penniman

Related to the service of Lt. Raymond B. Penniman, Company A, Royal Canadian Regiment, 7th Brigade, 3rd Canadian Division, BEF. Killed in Action (KIA) on the Somme Front in October 1916.

Penniman was just one of countless young men who fought in the Battle of the Somme. Born in Massachusetts in 1891, he lived in Providence, R.I. until his father Edwin moved the family to Ontario sometime before 1911. Raymond became a Canadian citizen in order to take a commission in the military, enlisting in 1914. He served as a Lieutenant in Company A of the Royal Canadian Regiment, 7th Brigade, 3rd Canadian Division, British Expeditionary Force. He was lost at the Somme, reported missing on October 8, 1916, in Regina Trench, joining over a million other casualties of that conflict.

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