Wood, Percy

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF FLORENCE AND STEP FATHER FOSTER FORD, AT 8, HAWTHORNE VILLAS, VICTOR STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSISTANT.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 21/09/1916. MOBILISED ON 06/08/1917. TRAINED AT RUGULEY CAMP. SERVED IN THE 22ND DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON 05/04/1918. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/04/1918, AGED 18. COMMEMORATED AT THE POZIERES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.

UNMARRIED. HE LEFT STEP FAMILY, WILLIAM, JOHN AND ERNIE FORD, AGNES AND SARAH JANE FORD.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON ST MARY’S CHURCH, LOWGATE, WAR MEMORIAL AND THE HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE MEMORIAL.


First name:
PERCY
Military Number:
85271
Rank:
Private
Date Died
26/04/1918
Place died:
Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
18
8, HAWTHORNE VILLAS, VICTOR STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK