Name
Percival Frank Lovell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Acting Corporal
S/10794
Rifle Brigade
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 16B and 16C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Post Office Memorial (*1), Not on the Bushey Heath memorials
Pre War
Son of Benjamin and Charlotte Agnes (nee MOLD) LOVELL of Grimsbury, Oxon.
His parents married 1889 in the Banbury district. Benjamin died 1939 aged 76; Charlotte died 1954 aged 87; both in the Banbury district.
Percival was born 1896 in Banbury, and baptised 15 May 1896 at Christ Church, Banbury. He resided in Banbury. He was appointed Assistant Postman Banbury August 1912, has an entry in the London Gazette dated 3 January 1913, and was appointed Postman (Q) Watford 1914.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Grimsbury (Oxon), with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, he still lived in Grimsbury, with his parents and three siblings.
Recorded as born in Banbury and was living there when he enlisted in Watford, however it appears that he was working for the Post Office in Watford and probably living in Bushey Heath.
Wartime Service
He attested 18 May 1915 in Watford: a postman aged 19, 5’9″ tall; his next-of-kin his father of Banbury, Oxon.
He embarked 24 February 1916 with the B.E.F. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was regarded for official purposes as having been killed in action on or since 15 September 1916.
Additional Information
*1 He appears under the Bushey Heath section of the Watford Post Office memorial.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
