Name
Percy Badrick
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/05/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
45751
Rifle Brigade
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT
VI. K. 13A.
France
Headstone Inscription
BELOVED SON OF GEORGE AND LOUISA BADRICK GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring
Pre War
Percy Badrick was born in 1899 in Berkhamsted to George Badrick, farm horseman, and Louisa Emily Winfield (nee Baker). Louisa had been married in 1884 to John Winfield, a brushmaker, there had been two sons: William (born 1885) and Walter (born 1887), Their father had died in 1886. On the 1891 Census Louisa, a silk mill hand, and her sons were living at 1 Harrow Yard, Tring Road, Berkhamsted.
Louisa married George Badrick in 1892.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, William John Winfield, Walter Winfield, Charlie (born 1893), Thomas,(born 1895), George (born 1897) and Percy were living at Long Marston.
On the 1911 Census, the family of parents, William John Winfield, Charles, Thomas (all three were farm cowmen), George (farm ploughboy),Percy and Christopher J (born 1905) were living at Tring Road, Long Marston. Also listed was Uriah Badrick as Grandfather.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Percy. He was enlisted as Private 45751 in the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) probably soon after his 18th Birthday in 1917 and after his training he was posted to 2nd Battalion sometime late 1917/early 1918.
He would have present with his Battalion during the Battles of the Somme 1918 at St St Quentin (21-23 Mar), Somme Crossings (24-25 Mar) and Rosieres (26-27 Mar), Villers- Brettonneux (24-25 Apr) and the Battle of the Aisne 1918 (17 May-6 Jun 1918). It was iin this last engagement the Percy was wounded. He died of his wounds on 30 May 1918 at 47 General Hospital at Le Treport.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £7 3s 10 d was paid to his mother Louisa. His brother George served as Private 36256 in 6th Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment) and was killed in action 29 Sep 1916 on the Somme.
His mother, Mrs L Badrick, ordered his headstone while living at 30, Charles Street, Tring, Herts., it reads: "BELOVED SON OF GEORGE AND LOUISA BADRICK GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN".
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
