Name
Percival Hookway Gange
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/06/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Air Force
No. 1 Training Depot Station
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BRISTOL (ARNOS VALE) CEMETERY
AA. 428.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 15 Oct 1893 Redland, Bristol and baptised on 22 Nov 1900 at Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire son of Walter Hookway and Emily Gange later of 7 Muller Avenue, Ashley Down, Bristol. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1902-08.
Wartime Service
Enlisted formerly Private 2806, Gloucestershire Regiment and entered France on 31 Mar 1915. He served at Armentieres, Ploegsteert and on the Somme in 1916 as battalion H.Q. runner and was promoted to Lance Corporal. He obtained a commission as 2nd Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps on 10 Jan 1918 and was killed in a flying accident at Narborough, Norfolk when his engine failed.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
