Name
Percy George Darton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/01/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266987
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NIEDERZWEHREN CEMETERY, KASSEL
IV. K. 10.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial,
St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Westmill,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford,
Not on the Buntingford memorials,
Not on the Cottered memorials
Pre War
Percy George Darton was born on 7th July 1897 in Cottered and baptised on 29 Aug 1897.
In 1901 Percy was still living in Cottered with his mother and father Hannah and David and elder brother and sisters Florence, Albert and Elsie. By 1911 the family had moved to Gaylors Farm, Westmill, Buntingford, where Percy was working as an errand boy for a local builder.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford also 5943 Bedfordshire Regiment and died in Germany in the prisoner of war camp in Kassel.
Additional Information
The CWGC gives the information recorded above, however the medal roll index card suggests that he was 5943 of the Hertfordshire Regiment and then 266987 of the Bedfordshire Regiment. Percy’s name is also inscribed on the memorial to his Mother and Father.
Percy is also commemorated on a headstone in Westmill (St. Mary) Churchyard. The inscription is difficult to read, but it does confirm that he died as a prisoner of war aged 20.
Acknowledgments
Nigel Leaney Malcolm Lennox, Carol Emery, Jonty Wild
