Name
Percy William Griffith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/04/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/46169
Royal Fusiliers *1
2nd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN
Plot II, Row G, Grave 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Andrew's Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of William Henry and Alice GRIFFITH; husband of Alice Maud (nee BANFIELD) GRIFFITH of Golders Green, London.
His parents married 1876 in the Islington, London, district. William died 9 June 1920 in Watford aged 66, and was buried 12 June in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Percy was born 1877 in Bow, London, and married 1907 in the Hackney, London, district. He resided in Hendon, Middx.
On the 1881 Census, aged 3 he lived in Hackney, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1891 Census, aged 13 he still lived in Hackney, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1901 Census, a commercial clerk aged 23, he lived in Stoke Newington, London, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a commercial clerk aged 33, he lived in Hendon, with his wife and no children.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Holborn, London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
Percy is also commemorated on the family headstone in Watford Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:
ALSO OF PERCY WILLIAM GRIFFITH [SON] KILLED IN ACTION APRIL 17TH 1917, AGED 38.
Unfortunately, Percy’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
*1 London Regiment
(Royal Fusiliers).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
