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Percy Viccars

Service Number 20497
Military Unit 1st Bn King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Date of birth Unknown
Date of Death 08 May 1915 (21 Years Old)
Place of Birth Nottingham
Employment, Education or Hobbies Percy Vicars worked as a jacquard card maker.
Family History

Father: Thomas Viccars, born in 1869 at Derby, working as a carter and marine stores carrier before becoming a bottle sealers' foreman. Mother: Mary E. Vicars, born in 1868 at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Brothers:William H., born in 1898 in Nottingham and Thomas F., born in 1903 in Nottingham. Sister: Ida, born in 1893 in Nottingham and working as a blouse cutter out. The family lived at 77 Henry Street, Nottingham, 441 Meadow Lane, Nottingham and finally 16 Thoresby Avenue, Sneinton Hermitage, Nottingham.

Military History

Pte. Viccars volunteered for service and following training he was drafted to France, arriving on 07/04/1915. The battalion was involved in severe fighting in the Ypres Salient, following the German use of gas a month before. Pte. Vicars was killed in action on 08/05/1915. his body was never recovered, but his name was commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres.

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