PERCY WALTER CUCKOW
Laid to rest at the Field of Honour.
Born: 11th March 1892, St. Peter’s, Ipswich.
Died: 28th June 1919; age: 27; died of Acute Appendicitis Perforated – 3 days, and General Septic Peritonitis – 10 days, at the East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital, Ipswich.
Mrs. Daisy May Cuckow, of 8, Austin Street, Ipswich, was present at her husband’s death.
Residence: 8, Austin Street, Ipswich.
Occupation: Screensman Assistant with Messrs. Cranfield & Bros, Dock Roller Mills, Ipswich.
Enlistment Details: Date: 11th December 1915; age: 23 years & 9 months; occupation: Screensman. Signed up for the Duration of the War. Next of Kin: father – Charles B. Cuckow, of 34, Bell Lane, Ipswich. Height: 4ft & 11ins.
Date of Entry Therein: 8th February 1916.
Wounded: 30th July 1916 – Gunshot Wound to the right arm – Guillemont, France. Sent to England – 6th August 1916.
Discharged: 23rd May 1917; age: 25. Character – Very Good.
23rd May 1919, discharged from 1st Easton General Hospital, Cambridge – given £1 advance and a suit of plain clothes. Would return to work at Cranfield & Bros., Dock Roller Mills, Ipswich, as a Screensman Assistant, where he had previously worked for 1 1/2 years before the war.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 26431.
Regiment: Bedfordshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War Medal + Silver War Badge.
Grave Reference:
BA.2.77.
Ipswich.
Relatives Notified & Address: Third son of Charles B. & Elizabeth Cuckow, of 34, Bell Lane, Ipswich; husband of Daisy Cuckow.
Brother to SIDNEY GEORGE ALBERT CUCKOW and brother-in-law to WALTER ARTHUR CHARLES HORSUP.
CENSUS
1901 34, Bell Lane, Ipswich.
Percy was 9 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Charles Burns Cuckow, 46, a Labourer, born Ipswich.
Elizabeth Matilda Cuckow (nee Glading), 44, born Ipswich.
Annie Maud Cuckow Glading, 18, a Tailoress, born Ipswich.
Charles Thomas Cuckow Glading, 15, a Machinist, born Ipswich.
Daisy Caroline Cuckow, 13, born Ipswich.
Thomas Henry Cuckow, 11, born Ipswich.
Grace Elizabeth Cuckow, 7, born Ipswich.
Edwin Harold Cuckow, 5, born Ipswich.
Elizabeth May Cuckow, 4, born Ipswich.
Sidney George Albert Cuckow, 3, born Ipswich.
1911 Caravan, Bury Farm, Epping, Essex.
Percy was 19 years old, a Steam Roll Driver’s Assistant – Borough Council. His colleague was 22 years old, Herbert Bantick, a Steam Roll Driver – Borough Council.
In 1917, in Ipswich, Percy married Daisy May Horsup, employed with Burton, Son & Saunders – Jam Manufacturers, Ipswich, born 24th May 1894, Ipswich – daughter of Arthur Walter Horsup, a general dealer – own account and Jane Ann Horsup (nee Lambeth), of 8 Austin Street, Ipswich.
Daisy and Percy had one daughter:
Winifred Violet May Cuckow, born March 1918, Ipswich.
Percy’s brother, Sidney George Albert Cuckow, killed in action on the 7th June 1918, age 20. He was ranked a Private, service number 29580, of the 1st/4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Sidney also worked at Cranfield Bros. Sidney is remembered on the Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France.
Percy’s widow, Daisy May Horsup (nee Cuckow), also lost her brother, Walter Arthur Charles Horsup, as a result of the First World War. Walter, a Private, service number 9334, for the Suffolk Regiment, 3rd Battalion, died on 28th June 1919 of pneumonia at the Workhouse Hospital, Middlesbrough; he was 39.
Percy received and signed on the 18th July 1918 for the King’s Certificate on his discharge, and for the Silver War Badge on the 17th August 1918 at his in-laws’ home at 8 Austin Street, Ipswich.
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