Alfred Reginald Fenner, Leading Supply Assistant, P/MX 69198, was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire on April 30th 1908. He was the son of Frederick William Fenner, a cab driver and later publican, and his wife Margaret, née Williams. In 1932, he married Doris Kynaston in Pen-y-Cae near Wrexham. Before enlisting in the Royal Navy, he was working in a grocer’s shop in the Wrexham area.