Peter Leonard Fanning
Person details
| Forename(s) | Peter Leonard |
|---|---|
| Surname | Fanning |
| Rank | Captain |
| Regiment | Coldstream Guards |
| Age | 23 |
| Death | Killed in action |
| Place of Death | Western Europe > Netherlands |
| Date of Death | 04/11/1944 |
| Year of Entry | 1935 |
| House Letter | G |
| School Notes | Honorary Scholar |
| Comments |
Rowed at stroke in the VIII which won the Ladies Plate at Henley, 1938 Rowed for Oxford University Brother of V E Fanning, G Social, 1911, killed in action at Beaumont Hamel, 14 November 1916, aged 19. |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link | https://www.cwgc.org/find-record... |
| Unit | 5th Battalion |
| Prefect | School Prefect |
| Military Decorations | |
| Album Number | 21 |
| Battle | |
| Previous Regiment | |
| Burial or Cemetery | Netherlands > Venray |
| Citations | |
| Archives | Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives |
| Post School | Queen's College, Oxford - Laming Scholarship for Modern Languages |
| Prep School | St George's. Folkestone |
| Prisoner of War | |
| Radlein Obituary | February 25 1945. Killed in action in N.W. Europe in November, 1944, Peter Leonard Fanning, Capt., Cold stream Guards (E) (Boyd's, Morgans', G, 1935-39). Peter Fanning's gifts were many and varied, and at school his career was a very spectacular one. Though not a Foundation Scholar of Radley, he was a made an Honorary Scholar when he won the Laming Scholarship for Modem Languages at the Queen's College, Oxford. He was a School Prefect, and played a distinguished part in many of the activities of Radley life. But he will be remembered most of all, and by many generations of Radleians, as the brilliant stroke of the crew which won the Ladies' Plate in 1938. His rowing success was continued at Oxford, where he stroked the UnIversity VIII in 1940. In 1941 he was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards and won high praise as a first-class officer. His early death - the result of a stray shell - has cut short a career of remarkable promise, and taken from Radley one of its most distinguished sons. |
| Service Number | 186900 |
| Place of Birth |
