Name
Percy Lewis Bryant
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
158985
Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment
52nd Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour recorded Percy Bryant serving with the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment from June 1918. Percy was born on 7th April 1900 at Berkhamsted, and was baptised on 3rd June at Leverstock Green. George and Sarah Bryant had three sons, and lived at “Hudscus Cottages”, Porridge Hill, Bedmond at the time of the 1911 Census.
Having joined up in mid-1918 Percy remained in the services for some time after the Armistice was signed in November 1918. He was listed in the Absent Voter Records of Autumn 1918, Spring 1919 and Autumn 1919. In these records it was indicated that his home address was Bedmond Road, Bedmond.
Percy’s brother, George, was taken Prisoner of War during the German Army’s Spring Offensive in 1918, and his other brother, Walter, had emigrated to New Zealand at some point, and returned to serve with the New Zealand Contingent. It was recorded in the Parish Magazine in December 1918 that Walter had been Discharged Disabled. All three brothers survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
