Name
Percy Farr
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
429020
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHESTER FARM CEMETERY
II. D. 15.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Redbourn War Memorial
Pre War
Born on 23 Nov 1892 in Redbourn, Herts. son of Edward and Isabella Annie (Woolatt) Farr, later of Matsqui, British Columbia and was baptised in Redbourn on 28 Oct 1893.
He lived in Scout Farm, Harpenden in 1901. He sailed from Liverpool on 14 May 1910 aged 18 on the Megantic for Quebec, Canada and became a rancher in Matsqui, Abbottsford, BC, Canada and was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Previously belonging to the 104th Militia, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 13 Mar 1915 at New Westminster, BC, Canada and was sent to Europe.
On 1 May his battalion moved from Poperinghe to the trenches in Bluff in the Ypres salient and according to the War Diaries was “severely shelled by minenwerfers, high explosive shells and 5.9s” from 2 to 8 May.
He was killed during this time.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, Malcolm Lennox
