Name
Percy Samuel (poss S P) Wilcox
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/12/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
31678
Bedfordshire Regiment
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WATFORD CEMETERY
A. 3. 204.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Richard and Louisa Caroline (nee EVEMY) WILCOX; husband of Annie Louisa (nee BROOKES) WILCOX.
His parents married 1871 in the Lymington, Hants, district. Richard died 12 February 1913 in Wembley, Middx, aged 69, and was buried 15 February in Wembley Cemetery; Louisa died 1921 in the Ringwood, Hants, district aged 74.
Percy was born 1881 in Ealing, Middx, and called Samuel Percy. He married 22 August 1906 at All Saints, Harrow Weald, Middx. He resided in Watford, and was buried 16 December. Annie remarried 5 April 1921 at St Mary’s, Watford, to William Mark WHISKIN, she died 1957 in Watford aged 75, and was buried 18 April, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1881 Census, aged 7 weeks he lived in Ealing, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1891 Census, aged 10 he lived in Harrow Weald, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1901 Census, a greengrocer’s assistant aged 20, he lived in Wealdstone, Middx. On the 1911 Census, a fruiterer (roundsman) aged 30 he still lived in Wealdstone, with his wife and no children.
Officially recorded as born in Ealing, Middx. and was living in Watford when he enlisted there.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; appears to have no medals, and died at Cliff Hospital, Felixstowe, Suffolk.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Percy’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH online via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
