Sunday 28 November 2010

306649 Pte Percy Oswald Procter, 2/7th West Riding Regt

306649 Private Percy Oswald Procter of the 2/7th Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) was one of 676 British Army officers and men to die on the 28th November 1917. Many of these men died in the freezing mud of Flanders. Percy was 30 years old, the son of William and Sarah Maria Procter of 26 Greave's Street, Little Horton Bradford. He is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial at Louverval, 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

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