Carrick, Percy

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE PERCY CARRICK 28765. Born at Roos, Yorkshire, 1891, the son of Hannah Maria Carrick, of Burton Road, Roos, East Yorkshire. His home life was complicated and hard to trace. It appears he was born out of wedlock (very much frowned upon at the time) as Percy William Creaser. His mother then married William Carrick and raised a family, whom he resided with under his birth name according to the 1901 Census. By 1911, he was working as a Waggoner on a farm in Cherry Burton and living as a Servant with the Byass family and now calling himself ‘Percy Carrick’. He moved on again, and at the time of his enlistment on 10th December 1915 he was living at 10 Laurel Villas, Estcourt Street, Hull and working as a Rulleyman. He was called up in the autumn of 1916 and sent to the trenches of the Western Front, – a flat landscape not unlike the village of his birth. He was killed in action during the attack on Le Cornet Perdu, on 28th June 1918, very probably by his own 18-pounders firing short like a good many of his comrades that fateful morning. He is buried at Aval Wood Military Cemetery; he was 27 years old.
NB:CARRICKS LIVED – 11 HENRYS TERRACE, WEST PARADE; 11 VICTORIA AVE, WELLSTEAD ST; FRED – ABERMARLE ST; 86 GILLETT STREET.