Name
Percy King
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/08/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Serjeant
8328
East Yorkshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MILL ROAD CEMETERY, THIEPVAL
XVII. G. 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Percy King was born was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in 1888, son of George Sidney King a, Labourer and Annie King (nee Spiller). One of four children.
1891 Census records Percy aged 3, living with his parents, brothers Sidney (4) and Ernest (1) at, 7 Maypole Road, Ilford, Essex.
1901 Census, Percy (13), his parents, two brothers and sister May (8) are now living at 149 Herbert Road, West Ham, London/Essex.
In 1906 aged 18, Percy enlisted at Selby, Yorkshire, in the East Yorkshire Regiment, issued with the service number 8328.
1911 Census records Percy aged 23, Single and a Private with the 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, stationed at Longmoor Camp, East Liss, Hants, he is recorded as a Transport Driver.
Percy married Nellie Walker the daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth Walker of Thirsk, Yorks, in Beverley, Yorks, in 1913. They went on to have a son George Frederick King, born in August 1914.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war Percy was still serving with the 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment.
The 1st Battalion landed at St. Nazaire, France, in September 1914. (Percy served with the 1st 10th and finally the 7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment). He was Killed in Action, at the time of his death on 24th August 1918, he held the rank of Lance Sergeant. He is buried in the CWGC Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval, Somme, France.
Additional Information
His widow Nellie received a widow’s pension of 21/8 a week from 17th March 1919, her pension card records she was living in Beverley, Yorkshire, she also received his effects of £11-3-5, pay owing and his war gratuity of £24-10-00.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
