BORN BARTON 1880. SECOND SON OF THE LATE JOHN JACKLIN (1851-1880) AND EMILY MARY WHORTER (1857-1919). HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. HE WORKED AS A LABOURER AND ELECTRICIAN.
HE ENLISTED AT HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 18009, WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 19/03/1915. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 34382, YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 30/09/1916, AGED 36. BURIED ON THE SOMME, FRANCE.
THIS WAS HIS PROBATE ADDRESS. HE LEFT £126 TO HIS MOTHER EMILY, WHO HAD MARRIED GEORGE LUCAS SCOTT, AT HARROGATE, ON 27/05/1905.
HIS NAME WAS LISTED ON THE DANSOM LANE MEMORIAL, HULL AND RECORDED ON THE HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL WW1 MEMORIAL.
HE IS BURIED AT DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, AT THE SOMME.
First name:
JOHN PERCY
Military Number:
34382
Rank:
Private
Date Died
30/09/1916
Place died:
Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France
Age:
36
15, PEMBERTON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
