Name
Percy Walter William Cole
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/04/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
29794
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LONDON CEMETERY, NEUVILLE-VITASSE
III. A. 12.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Percy Walter William Cole was born in Lambeth Surrey, in 1886 to Francis Edgar and Frances Evelyn Cole.. On the 1911 Census he was 24 and living with his sister Elsie Brown and brother in law Henry Brown at 58 Hadham Road. Bishop's Stortford and working as milk carrier. He married Elizabeth Taylor in Bishop's Stortford in 1912.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and served in the Bedfordshire Regiment. The day he died, the 7th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment had arrived an Neuville Vitasse, south east of Arras and had taken over the front line trenches from the King's Liverpool Regiment. The circumstances of his death are not known.
Additional Information
His widow Elizabeth received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £2 17s 1d for herself and her child.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
