 Given conscription, by the end of the war the number would have arisen to about 160 men in uniform.”"

Pennington lost 36 men to the Great War.Cockram, Stephens and Williams’ book, "Pennington’s Sacrifice in the Great War", recounts those fellows and the parts they had played in village life.The reason the book was written was to “"ensure Pennington’s outstanding support of the Great War continues to be remembered.