Hull Pals Memorial Post: PRIVATE PERCY BROWN 10/734. Born in Bridlington, in 1891, Percy was the eighth of nine children to Robert and Elizabeth Brown of 39 High Street, Bridlington. A Clerk before the war he enlisted at Hull City Hall on 5th September 1914 joining the 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Commercials’, 1st Hull Pals.
Following training throughout the following 12 months, the Pals served in Egypt between December 1915 and February 1916 when they left Port Said for Marseilles and the journey north to the trenches of the Western Front.
Percy was killed in action during the sustained and deadly accuracy of an enemy bombardment in the small hours of 4th June 1916 and is buried in Sucrerie Military Cemetery; he was 25 years old.
The Regimental War Diary makes just one short entry for that day:
“Casualties. Lieut Palmer + 2/Lieut Spink killed. Lieut Rice + 2/Lieut Norfolk wounded. 20 OR killed. 47 OR wounded.”
Percy was one of the ‘OR’s (‘other ranks’) not worthy of even a name.
Brown, Percy
First name:
PERCY
Military Number:
734
Rank:
Private
Date Died
04/06/1918
Place died:
Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France
Age:
25
39 HIGH STREET, BRIDLINGTON, , EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
