Name
Percy Herbert Moulden
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/11/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
200847
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GAZA WAR CEMETERY
XXX. B. 5.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
He was a resident of Luton, was a tailor and had been in the Church Lads Brigade.
His mother was Mrs Moulden of 6, Gaping Lane, Hitchin and he was her fourth son. He was married and lived in Luton. A brother died of wounds in France.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and was given the Number 200847. He was killed in action in Palestine with the 5th Battalion of the Bedfords.
The date of his death coincides with the Third Battle of Gaza when the 5th Bedfords attacked a Turkish position known as Sheik Hassan with much shelling and confused fighting. Sheik Hassan was an enclosure in the dunes parallel with the northern edge of Gaza. After capturing Tomb Spur, then Sheik Hassan, the Bedfords were subjected to heavy shelling. It had been intended that tanks would help, but they arrived late due to the soft sand.
He was buried in Plot 30, Row B, Grave 5 in the Gaza War Cemetery in Israel.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
