PERCY HAROLD DURRANT
Born: 21st September 1874, Ipswich.
Baptised: 23rd June 1878, at St. Mary Elms Church, Ipswich, with brother, Basil Owen Durrant, and sister, Milicent Maud Mary Durrant – family home – 5, The Mount, Ipswich.
Died: 10th November 1918; age 43; died of Pneumonia at the No. 11 Casualty Clearing Station, Roubaix.
Residence: London, W.C.
Occupation: Club Attendant.
Enlistment Location: Holborn, Middlesex.
Date of Entry Therein: 4th November 1915 – Balkans.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 17761
Regiment: Essex Regiment, 3rd Battalion – transferred to 632606, Labour Corps.
Grave Reference:
I.A.63.
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Shelomith & Mary Moore Durrant, of Ipswich; husband of Ethel Harriett Durrant, of The Thatch, Sidegate Lane, Ipswich.
CENSUS
1881 24, Black Horse Lane, Ipswich.
Percy was 7 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Shelomith Durrant, 53, a Coachman – Domestic, born Kersey, Suffolk.
Mary Moore Durrant (nee Foster), 46, born Bawdsey, Suffolk.
Adin Thomas Durrant, 23, a Grocer’s Assistant, born Bawdsey.
Foster Alonso Durrant, 19, a Carrier, born Ipswich.
Bartolla Lucy Durrant, 17, a Milliner, born Ipswich.
Oscar John Durrant, 15, an Errand Boy, born Ipswich.
Annette Keturah Durrant, 12, born Ipswich.
Basil Owen Durrant, 3, born Ipswich.
1891 7, Handford Road, Ipswich.
Percy was 16 years old, a Shop Boy – Grocer. He was living with his parents & siblings.
Shelomith, 63, a Gentleman’s Servant – Groom.
Mary, 56, a Dressmaker.
Bartolla, 27, a Milliner.
Annette, 22, a Mother’s Help.
Basil, 12.
1 visitor.
1901 Raleigh Club, Regent Street, Westminster, St. James, London.
Percy was 26, a Barman and 1 of 32 servants.
Percy’s father, Shelomith Durrant, died on the 14th October 1910, at his home – 3, Gibbons Street, Ipswich.
Sister – Milicent Maud Mary Durrant, born 20th February 1877, died on the 20th July 1878 and was buried at Ipswich Old Cemetery.
On the 24th June 1915, Ipswich, Percy married Ethel Harriet Chenery, born 1st November 1890, Rushmere St. Andrew, Suffolk – daughter of Robert Chenery, an agricultural labourer for Mr. Benjamin Spurling King, a farmer, of Rushmere Hall, and Emma Chenery (nee Denny), of The Thatch, Sidegate Lane.
Ethel and Percy had one daughter:
Joye Mary Moore Durrant, born 16th May 1919, Ipswich, baptised on the 28th September 1919, at St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Ethel H. Durrant – widow.
Percy is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich.
Essex Regiment, 3rd Battalion:
Labour Corps:
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