Name
Percy Hallard
5 Feb 1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/02/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17434
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LEEDS (HAREHILLS) CEMETERY
Screen Wall. G. 52.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Harpenden memorials
Pre War
Percy was born on 5 Feb 1892 in Gillingham, Kent to Robert Hallard, leading rigger, and Esther Annie (nee Burd-Old).
On the 1901 census they were living at Copenhagen Road , Gillingham. On the 1911 Census Percy was living with his Uncle and Aunt in a grocery at Ashington, Sussex. At some he lived in Harpenden.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war Percy volunteered joining the Bedfordshire Regiment as Private 17434. After training he joined the 1st Battalion in France on 27 Apr 1915, taking part in the Battles of Festubert and Ypres.
He was wounded while the Bedfords were in the front line at Hill 60 Ypres. He died of his wounds in Hospital at Leeds, Yorkshire.
Additional Information
War Gratuity £6 and arrears £16 18s paid to father Robert. Brother Hubert served with the Herts Regiment as Private 4771 and Beds Regiment as 266520.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
