Percy Thomas Kitchen
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Percy was born at Coates in 1891 and was the son of John a farmer and Sarah Kitchen, of Coates Cottam, Retford they have six children in total. In the 1911 census he has left home and is a boarder living in Scofton near Worksop. He is 20 years of age and a horseman on a farm. He met and married Alice Edith Corton at St Peters Church,Sturton Le Steeple on 10th February 1914 and they went on to have a daughter Violet Alice born 12th December 1914 at Bingham. Following Percy's death his wife remarries and becomes Alice Hindley and lives at Sturton.
Percy's service record survives and it shows that he enlisted at Nottingham on 19th May 1915 , that his address was Lings Cottage, Cropwell Butler and that he was 25 years and 5 months of age and a farm servant. It gives his next of kin as his wife Alice Edith of Lings Cottage,Cropwell Butler and gives details of his marriage and that of his daughter Violet Alice born on 12th December 1914 at Bingham. It further states that he served on home duties which would have included training between 19th May 1915 and 5th March 1916 , on 6th March 1916 he joined the British Expeditionary Force and serves in France and Flanders until being killed in action on 26th June 1916 and he is buried in Le Touret military cemetery, Richebourg-L'avoue (grave ref III 4 II)
Nottinghamshire County Council minutes of Committee of Visitors of Notts County Lunatic Asylum, 24 April 1917. Item 5, Staff and War Service: 'News has just come to hand that P T Kitchen, late Farm Horseman, was killed in action in June last [1916].'
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