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A Camborne soldier: John Pentecost

July 4, 2017 by Susan Roberts Leave a Comment

The discharge certificate of John Pentecost, who died at home in 1919 after contracting tuberculos20160414_112508is on active service.  It says: ‘A steady man’. A large crowd attended his funeral in Camborne: his name is on Camborne Church war memorial.

John Pentecost was a brother of Leslie Pentecost, whose story is told in the Long Distance Love section of this site.

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