BORN DRIFFIELD 1884. SON OF DAVID EDWARD BOURNER (1854-1899) & MARY ANN ROBSON (1858-1940), OF 20 CHESTNUT AVENUE, PARK ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS & PARISH MAGAZINE). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. FOUR BROTHERS SERVED IN THE WAR, AND THREE DIED WITHIN TWO YEARS. HAROLD & GEORGE BOURNER, WERE ALSO KILLED IN ACTION.
PERCY WAS A DRAPER’S ASSISTANT, EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, CRAFT, WITHAM, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND, 3RD & 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, IN FRANCE AND WAS WOUNDED TWICE. HE WAS RECOVERING FROM SEPTIC WOUNDS, AT CAMBRIDGE HOSPITAL. HE ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED WHILE BOATING, ON 16/05/1918, AGED 24, AT CHESTERTON, CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
HE WAS BURIED AT HULL NORTHERN CEMETERY. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 24/05/1918. *
A WIDOWER. HE HAD MARRIED LOUISA STAMP (1889-1916), IN 1915. SHE DIED IN CHILDBIRTH, DURING A HULL ZEPPELIN RAID. THEY HAD ONE SON, PERCY BOURNER (2/5/1916-2001) WHO WAS CARED FOR BY MRS ADA PRINCE, OF 4, ROSLYN AVENUE, BLENHEIM STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION RECORDS)
HIS BROTHER HAROLD, 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE HAD BEEN KILLED ON 19/07/1916, AGED 28. HIS OTHER BROTHER, SERGEANT, GEORGE DAVID BOURNER, 16TH CHESHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED ON 13/07/1917, AGED 26. THEIR WIDOWED MOTHER, MARY, HAD LOST THREE SONS IN THE WAR.
