Name
Percy George Burgess
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/07/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
139320
Machine Gun Corps
37th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAGNEUX BRITISH CEMETERY, GEZAINCOURT
III. D. 20.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar, Not on the Hoddesdon memorials, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1894 in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire (or Clavering, Essex) son of George and Elizabeth Burgess later of 19 Old Highway, Rye House, Hoddesdon. He was a cowman and lived in Hollow Lodge, Hoddesdon in 1911.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford formerly 3771, Private, Hertfordshire Regiment and then 235123, Private, Lincolnshire Regiment and then the Machine Gun Corps.
Died of pneumonia in service.
Additional Information
His headstone inscription reads: “IN FOND AND EVERLOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON AND BROTHER”
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox