Lieutenant John Pengelly Dill

From Invizyon Website:

8 Sept. 1915

Births - at Durbans, Romsey, Hants. On 30th August the wife of the late Captain Robert Foster Dill, DSO, 129th DCO Baluchhis, of a son.

The two children of Robert Foster Dill (1883-1915) and Margaret Douglas Pengelly (1882-1970)were:

i) Robert Hastings Dill (1914-1995)

ii) John Pengelly Dill (1915-1941)

John is the child who was born after his father’s death at Neuve-Chapelle, and the two brothers would be the fifth cousins of Hetty Jane Owen’s children, Olwen and Harold Eldridge. 

Robert Hastings Dill was born in June 1914 in Mussoorie, Bengal, India, probably just before his father departed for France. He was educated at Marlborough College, and Sandhurst and immediately followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the Indian Army and attaining the rank of major. He married Barbara Angel Horton in 1942 in Indore. 

Around the time of, or after, Indian independence, they returned to England and settled in the West Country. Robert died in Barnstable, Devon in 1995. The couple had two children (sixth cousins of Hetty Jane Owen’s grandchildren) and at least three grandchildren. 

John Pengelly Dill was not so fortunate, as the following excerpt from a history of the Battle of Pink Hill in Crete in 1941 records: 

The Germans apparently airlifted John Pengelly Dill to Athens, but to no avail. Margaret Douglas Pengelly thus lost her husband in the first war and her son in the second.