Name
Percival Edward Tarver
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/03/1915
42
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1699
London Regiment *1
13th (County of London) Bn
'G' Coy,
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NEUVE-CHAPELLE FARM CEMETERY
E. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bushey Town Memorial, St James’ Church Memorial, Bushey
Pre War
Wartime Service
Percival enlisted in Kensington as Private 1699 with the London Regiment and served on the Western front with the 13th (County of London) Battalion (Princess Louise’s Kensington Battalion), where his duties as a signaller included carrying messages on foot and by bicycle or by leaving the road and crawling along trenches in deep mud.
In January 1915, he wrote to The Watford Observer describing his experiences and the Christmas Truce of 1914. He was killed in action on 12 March 1915, aged 42. He was buried at Neuve-Chapelle Farm Cemetery in France and is commemorated in Bushey on the Clay Hill Memorial and at St James’ Parish Church. He was entitled to the British, Victory and 14/15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 3 November 1914.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Kensington).
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild