Name
Percy Edwin Norris
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/08/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25725
Bedfordshire Regiment
posted to Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 4 and 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Kimpton Village Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church, Kimpton, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Percy Edwin Norris was born in 1892 in Kimpton the son of George and Elizabeth Norris and one of four children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at High Street, Kimpton where his father was working as a horseman on a farm. They had moved to Church Lane, Kimpton by 1911 and Percy was then working as a farm labourer.
His parents later lived at Ballslough Cottage, Kimpton.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and joined the Bedfordshire Regiment, later being posted to the Hertfordshire Regiment.
He was killed in action on 23 August 1918 during an attack on the railway cutting in front of Achiet-le-Grand. Although the attack was successful, there were heavy casualties with 28 men killed and 147 wounded.
Percy has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £11 10s and pay owing of £11 16s 4d. His mother received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Jonty Wild
