Name
Percy James Mowlam
1879
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/08/1916
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
84389
Royal Engineers
203rd Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Plot 2. Row B. Grave 82.
France
Headstone Inscription
DEATH DIVIDES BUT MEMORY CLINGS FROM A LOVING WIFE.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials,
Impington and Histon War Memorial, Cambs,
Impington St Andrew Roll of Honour, Cambs
Pre War
Percy James Mowlam was born to James and Rebecca Mowlam in 1879 at Impington, Cambridgeshire. The family lived at Impington on the 1881, 1891 and 1901 Censuses and on the 1911 Census were living at Cambridge Road, Impington when Percy was working as a carpenter. He married Alice Ann Rainbird in Hockerill, Hertford on 20 August 1914.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Cambridge and served with the 203rd Company of the Royal Engineers which was a Cambridgeshire Field Company. He died of wounds at the No. 5 Casualty Clearing Station, France at Corbie.
Additional Information
His wife Alice received a war gratuity of £ 10 and pay owing of £6 14s 6d.
N.B. Surname sometimes spelt Mowlan, rather than Mowlam.
His wife, Mrs A A Mowlam of The Hollies, Impington, Cambridge, ordered his headstone inscription: "DEATH DIVIDES BUT MEMORY CLINGS FROM A LOVING WIFE".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
