Name
Percy Cawdell Cleall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/08/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Essex Regiment
6th Bn. attd. 10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ONTARIO CEMETERY, SAINS-LES-MARQUION
IV. A. 26.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials (*1)
Pre War
Son of George and Cecilia (nee CAWDELL) CLEALL; husband of Laura Janet (nee CRAWLEY) CLEALL of Watford.
His parents married 1884 in the Yeovil, Somerset, district. George died 22 February 1941 aged 83; Cecilia died 20 January 1946 aged 86; both in Waltham Cross, Essex.
Percy was born 26 February 1890 in Holditch, Somerset [or Dorset], and baptised 23 March 1890 at St John the Evangelist, Tatworth, Somerset. He was on the teaching staff of the Education Officer’s Department, London County Council, and married 1917 at St John the Evangelist, Watford. Laura remarried 1959 in the Bournemouth, Hants, district to John S HEPBURN, and died 14 October 1970 in Bournemouth aged 80.
There is a Marriage announcement for Percy in the Observer dated 21 April 1917.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1891 Census, aged 1 he lived in Holditch, with his parents and no siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 11 he lived in Chandlers Ford, Hants, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, an assistant master aged 21, he was a boarder in Stoke Newington, London.
Wartime Service
He was gazetted 1 July 1915 to the 6th Battalion Essex Regiment: Cadet from University of London contingent, Service Divisiom, Officers Training Corps, to be Second Lieutenant. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died of wounds as a Prisoner of War following the Battle of Amiens.
There is a Death announcement for Percy in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 23 November 1918.
Additional Information
*1 His only connection to Watford appears to be through his marriage there.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
