Name
Percival William Corduroy Northcroft
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Rifle Brigade
6th Bn., attached 3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 46 - 48 and 50.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Caldicott School Memorial, Hitchin*1
Pre War
He was born on the 10th November 1897, son of Ada Mary Northcroft, of 10, Sussex Place, Regent's Park, London, and the late Henry Northcroft.
He entered the Caldicott School in April 1907. He left in July 1911 to go to the Leys at Cambridge. His last known home was at 11, Nottingham Terrace, Marylebone Road in London.
Wartime Service
After receiving his commission, he was posted to the 6th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade and, at the time of his death, was attached to the 3rd Battalion. The latter was part of the 17th Brigade of the 24th Division of II Corps in the 5th Army. His death occurred in action during the Battle of Pilckem in the Ypres Salient when the Brigade fought for and achieved an objective one thousand yards east of Klein Zillebeke.
He has no known grave but is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres in Belgium.
Additional Information
*1 This memorial (names only) was removed to Caldicott School, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, when the school moved to that site.
Acknowledgments
Terry Ransome, www.caldicott.com/HistoryWW2.aspx, Jonty Wild
