Name
Percy Joyner (served as Percy Richards)
1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/08/1916
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
8776
Worcestershire Regiment
4th Bn.
'Y' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY
I. R1. 8.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt Town memorials, Lincoln War Memorial
Pre War
Percy Joyner - Alias Percy Richards
Percy Joyner was born in Cheshunt Herts, in 1883, son of Henry Joyner and Mary Ann Joyner (nee Hensmon). His father Henry married his first wife Mary Ann Hensmon in 1871, in West Ham, they had seven children, on the death of his first wife Mary, Henry remarried in 1905 to Harriet Florence Cockerton they also had seven children.
1891 Census records Percy aged 7, living with his parents, brothers Arthur (17) and Ernest (12) in, Goffs Lane, Cheshunt, Herts.
1901 Census. It is believed Percy, his father Henry and brother Charles were living in Gazeley, Suffolk, under the name of Richards.
His father remarried in 1905.
1911 Census records Percy (24), living with his father, stepmother Florence, half-brothers William (5), & Leslie (1) and half-sister Gladys (3) at 28 Church Street, Louth, Lincs.
Percy married Gertrude Joyce Winter of Lincoln, the daughter of John & Harriet Winter, in Lincoln in 1914.
Wartime Service
Percy enlisted under the Alias ”Percy Richards” posted to the Worcestershire Regiment with the service number 8776, initially serving with the 2nd Battalion, then the 4th Battalion.
Percy arrived in France on 11th September 1914, seeing action on the Western Front, he was Killed in Action on 6th August 1916, aged 33. He is buried in the Menin Road South Military Cemetery in Belgium.
Additional Information
Gertrude received a widow’s pension on 10/- a week from 5th March 1917, raised to 13/9 a week from 4th April 1917, and his effects of £4-18s-00d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £11-10s-00d.
Gertrude remarried on 14th August 1917, in Lincoln, to James Keegans.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
