PERCY GEORGE WARNER

 

 

Born: 1892, Ipswich.

Baptised: 1st April 1894, Ipswich.

Died: 21st March 1918; age 26; KiA.

Residence: Ipswich.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

 

Rank: Corporal; Service Number: B/202110

Regiment: Rifle Brigade, 16th Battalion.

Formerly S/4/041823, R.A.S.C.

 

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

 

Memorial Reference:

Panel 81 to 84.

Pozieres Memorial,

Somme,

France.

 

CENSUS

 

1901   117, Lacey Street, Ipswich.

 

Percy was 10 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

Henry Warner, 39, a Police Sergeant, born Felixstowe, Suffolk.

Susannah Warner (nee Jay), 42, born Ipswich.

Alice M. Warner, 13, an Apprentice Dressmaker, born Ipswich.

Evelyn Mary Warner, 11, Apprentice Tailoress, born Ipswich.

Henry William Warner, 11, born Ipswich.

Bertie Warner, 3, born Ipswich.

 

1911   117, Lacey Street, Ipswich.

 

Percy was 19 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

Henry was 49, a Police Officer – Detective Inspector.

Susannah, 52.

Evelyn, 22, a Nurse – Infirmary.

Henry, 21, a Plumber.

Bertie, 13.

 

In 1914, Ipswich, Percy married Maud Beatrice Gooding.

They had 1 son:

John H. Warner, born 1914, Ipswich.

 

Soldiers’ Effects to Maud B. Warner – widow.

 

 Percy is also remembered on the war memorial at Christ Church, Tacket Street, Ipswich and at  St. Nicholas Church, Ipswich – recorded as Percival, and on the Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Orwell Works, war memorial. Now sited at The Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk.

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Rifle Brigade, 16th Battalion

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