Percy James Mowlam

Name

Percy James Mowlam
1879

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

26/08/1916
37

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Serjeant
84389
Royal Engineers
203rd Coy.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

British War and Victory medals

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Plot 2. Row B. Grave 82.
France

Headstone Inscription

DEATH DIVIDES BUT MEMORY CLINGS FROM A LOVING WIFE.

UK & Other Memorials

Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials,
Impington and Histon War Memorial, Cambs,
Impington St Andrew Roll of Honour, Cambs

Pre War

Percy James Mowlam was born to James and Rebecca Mowlam in 1879 at Impington, Cambridgeshire. The family lived at Impington on the 1881, 1891 and 1901 Censuses and on the 1911 Census were living at Cambridge Road, Impington when Percy was working as a carpenter. He married Alice Ann Rainbird in Hockerill, Hertford on 20 August 1914.

Wartime Service

He enlisted at Cambridge and served with the 203rd Company of the Royal Engineers which was a Cambridgeshire Field Company. He died of wounds at the No. 5 Casualty Clearing Station, France at Corbie.

Additional Information

His wife Alice received a war gratuity of £ 10 and pay owing of £6 14s 6d.
N.B. Surname sometimes spelt Mowlan, rather than Mowlam.

His wife, Mrs A A Mowlam of The Hollies, Impington, Cambridge, ordered his headstone inscription: "DEATH DIVIDES BUT MEMORY CLINGS FROM A LOVING WIFE".

Acknowledgments

Brenda Palmer