13463 Gdmn Percy Unsworth Battle, 2nd Bn, Grenadier Guards

13463 Guardsman Percy Unsworth Battle of the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, was killed in action on the 4th September 1914. He was born in Wickham Market, Suffolk, and enlisted at Colchester in November 1907. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was the husband of R E Battle of 36 Weald Road, Brentwood.

The 1911 census records that Percy, by then on the Army Reserve, was working as a twenty-one year old police constable at Brentwood police station. When war was declared however, he was called up when war was declared, arriving in France on the 13th August. He is buried in the Guards Grave, Villers Cotteret Forest, France.

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