121070 Spr Percy Shackleton, RE

121070 Sapper Percy Shackleton of the 74th Field Company, Royal Engineers, was killed in action on the 16th March 1916, one of 164 British Army officers and men to die on this date. He was born in Ingrow, Yorkshire and was living at Keighley at the time of his enlistment. The Commonwealth war Graves Commission records that he was 34 years old and married to Mary Helen Shackleton of 6 Cherry Street, Brow, Haworth in Keighley.

Percy Shackleton is buried in Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission