Name
Percival Henry Clarence Knights
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
110537
Royal Field Artillery
5th Reserve Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WATFORD CEMETERY
Plot L, Row 11, Grave 874.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour
Pre War
Son of John and Ann Rosetta (nee COE) KNIGHTS of Watford.
His parents married 15 November 1890 at St Mary’s, Watford. Ann died 1932 in Watford aged 71, and was buried 3 October in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Percival was born 27 May 1893 in Watford, and baptised 15 October 1893 at St Mary’s, Watford. He attended first Callow Land Infants’ School, Watford; then Callowland Board School from 9 January 1900 to 12 July 1901; then Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 22 July 1901 to 3 February 1903. He resided in Watford, and was buried 19 October.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Watford, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a cocoa factory hand aged 18, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and two siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died at the Military Hospital, Ripon, Yorks.
Additional Information
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Percival in the West Herts and Watford Observer Dated 19 October 1918; plus an In Memoriam in the issue dated 18 October 1919.
Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War.
Unfortunately, Percival’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
May appear as 110637 in some records.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
