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Identity
Person No.
576
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Percivale
Initials
P
Date of Birth
Age at Death
36
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action
Military Service
Rank
Major
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On the Somme battlefield at Thiepval, overlooking the Ancre valley
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Percy Anthony
Notes

Son of Mr. Charles Anthony Percy, late proprietor of the Hereford Times. Stepson of Mrs. Anthony, of "St. Rode", Chesham Bois Common, Bucks. Of Batu Kajah Parak, Malay States. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918. Major Anthony volunteered in the F.M.S in October,1914, and, being accepted, resigned his appointment at Batu Gajah and was gazetted temporary Captain in the Welsh Regiment. He served as a Lieutenant in the contingent of Herefordshire Volunteers attached to the 2nd Shropshire Regiment during the South African War, and held the Queen's Medal with five clasps. An all round athlete, in South Africa he was captain of the Wanderers' Cricket Club, and played three-quarter for the Transvaal. He was in the Dulwich College cricket eleven and football fifteen. He headed the Herefordshire averages for more than one season, and was invited to qualfy for the Surrey and Worcestershire, invitations he could not accept owing to his engagements abroad.' Straits Times, Singapore 10 August 1916, p.6 Percy Anthony is listed on the Ipoh War Memorial, Perak, Malaysia. On Dulwich College War Memorial

Research notes

Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 7 A and 10 A: named on photograph "Percy Anthony". Photograph: South African War Graves Project. Date of birth recorded by the South African War Graves Project.

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