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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 18 August
1917

Redditch Officers’ Death from Wounds – Second-Lieutenant Ernest Denny London Regt.,
attached King’s Royal Rifle Corps., who had died of wounds received in action was the
second son of Mr and Mrs R. W. Denny, Mount Pleasant, Redditch. He enlisted in the Artists’
Rifles in November, 1915, and received his commission in June of the following year. In
December, 1916, he was attached to the king’s royal Rifle Corps.
Acknowledgements: www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk - Martin Stephens who digitised the Bromsgrove, Droitwich
and Redditch Messenger

He went to Reading University 1913-15 and is remembered in their WW1 Memorial Book.

Ernest Denny was a Yorkshire man by origin, born in West Wisling to parents Robert William
and Ellen Hannah Denny. He trained as a teacher and during his attendance at the Reading
University College he was a notable presence not only in the sporting sphere but the
academic and political as well.
Denny was Deputy Tennis Captain for the years 1914-1915 but did not limit himself, as in the
same year he was a member of the Student Union Representative Council, on the committee
for the Debating Society, Vice President of Shells, Cofferer of the Gild of the Red Rose and
Sub-Editor of Tamesis, the student magazine.
Denny was also a poet and his book ‘Triumphant laughter: Poems, 1914-1917’ was published
after his death
Source:- https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/reading-connections/2013/10/23/war-poets-at-the-university-of-reading/

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