Major-General William Penn-Symons was a British Army officer who was mortally wounded as he commanded his forces at the Battle of Talana Hill during the South African War (1899-1902).
Although the British won the battle, having suffered considerable casualties and with little chance of re-enforcements, they had to abandon their position and fall back to Ladysmith.
Penn-Symons and the more severely wounded were left behind in the town of Dundee and Penn-Symons died three days later. He had previously seen action in South Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War.
