Name
Percy Walter Feasey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
36305
Princess Charlotte of Wales’ (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
2nd. Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panels 105 to 106 and 162.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Rickmansworth memorials
Pre War
Son of Walter Eaton Feasey of Rickmansworth, Herts, and the late Harriett Ann (nee Elmore) Feasey.
His parents married 1888 in the Wandsworth, London, district. Harriet died 1915 in Watford aged 56, and was buried 3 March in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford. Walter remarried 1918 in the Biggleswade, Beds, district to Gertrude Mary COOPER. He died 1946 in Mill End, Herts, aged 80, and was buried 4 February in Vicarage Road Cemetery; Gertrude of Croxley Green died 17 May 1971 aged 84.
Percy was born 8 October 1893 in Upper Norwood, Surrey, and attended All Saints School, Croydon, Surrey, from 17 May 1891. He resided in Rickmansworth.
His father was a Greengrocer and in 1901 the family – Walter, Harriett, Percy, and his older brother Albert, were living at a Fruit Stores, 186 Oval Road, Croydon. In 1911 they were at 2 Shrublands Avenue, Berkhamsted. Walter was now a Gardener Domestic, Percy age 17, an Apprentice Motor Engineer, and Albert elsewhere.
When Percy died in 1917 his father was living 2 Tolpits, Rickmansworth. His mother, Harriett, died in 1915 and his father, Walter remarried to Gertrude Mary Cooper in 1918. In 1939 they were living 42 Springwell Avenue, Rickmansworth with their daughter Marjorie J Feasey born in 1920.
Recorded as enlisting in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Formerly 5997 in the Hertfordshire Regiment
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Percy’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Mike Collins, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk), Jonty Wild
