{"id":700,"date":"2015-10-31T01:28:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T01:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/?page_id=700"},"modified":"2025-03-08T02:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T02:30:39","slug":"walter-penrice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/?page_id=700","title":{"rendered":"Walter Penrice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Walter ‘Joe’ Penrice, b.1897 Birkenhead, the son of Oscar and Ella Penrice (who were later of Higher Bebington, Cheshire). Attended the private school \u2018Birkenhead institute\u2019 in the \u2018Wirral\u2019 near Liverpool and was House Captain of the school House named \u2018Tate\u2019 in 1914. With the outbreak of war, he enlisted and became 2nd Lieutenant, Kings Liverpool Rifles, WW1, wounded 1916. To Singapore 1920 and became noted in playing cricket for Singapore Cricket Club, swimming at the Singapore Swimming Club and rugby for Singapore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commissioned as 2nd Lt (Eurasian Coy) SVC Penang in 1928 when he was working for Mansfield & Co. Ltd \u2013 promoted Manager, Penang from 1933 then Director, Mansfields and \u2018No.2\u2019 for Straits Steamship Company. Promoted from Lt. to Captain SSVR 1928 then Acting Major of 2SSVF in 1937. Appears to have been a bachelor and clearly accepted as a member of the Singapore \u2018establishment\u2019 by 1941 when he was appointed to the Singapore Licensing Board and the Board of the Singapore Harbour Board.<\/p>\n\n\n

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He evacuated Singapore on the Relau 13.2.42 and then an Internee in Muntok and Palembang Internment Camps. During his internment \u2018Joe\u2019 Penrice, possibly reflecting his peacetime commercial seniority, became head of the \u2018British Committee\u2019 in Palembang and Muntok Internment Camps \u2013 it was a somewhat controversial period with other nationalities not in support of his authoritarian approach to such matters as publishing any material concerning the \u2018British community\u2019 and friction came to a head over the factions of opinion within the camp over the \u2018keeping of dogs\u2019, which saw him lose the role of head man (\u2018BEW\u2019). \u2018Walter \u2018Joe\u2019 Penrice died in captivity 20.7.44, aged 47 years in Muntok Internment Camp, Banka Island at a time when Beri Beri and Malaria were rife and taking the lives of many. His death was noted by Reis in his diary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His grave is E5 on the graves page<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n

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He was a keen sportsman and there are frequent references to winning a number of swimming competitions, as the following illustrate:<\/p>\n\n\n

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7 February 1927<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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9 July 1938<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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17 October 1938<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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26 May 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

His probate record:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Walter Penrice’s Probate Record<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Walter ‘Joe’ Penrice, b.1897 Birkenhead, the son of Oscar and Ella Penrice (who were later of Higher Bebington, Cheshire). Attended the private school \u2018Birkenhead institute\u2019 in the \u2018Wirral\u2019 near Liverpool and was House Captain of the school House named \u2018Tate\u2019 in 1914. With the outbreak of war, he enlisted and became 2nd Lieutenant, Kings Liverpool … Continue reading Walter Penrice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-700","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4720,"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/700\/revisions\/4720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}