RUSHTON, PERCY

Photograph with kind permission from the Uttoxeter Advertiser

 

Source

CWGC

SDGW

Uttoxeter Advertiser

Other

Parents

 

 

 

 

 

Where born

 

 

 

 

 

When born

About 1897

 

 

 

2

Address

With his sister before the war: 82 Carter Street, Uttoxeter

 

 

4a

 

Uttoxeter

 

Yes

 

 

Spouse

 

 

 

 

 

Children

 

 

 

 

 

Employment Before Joining up

Worked for Mr. Freeman, of Field

 

 

4a

 

Where enlisted

Lichfield, Staffordshire

 

Yes

 

 

Regiment

Manchester

Yes

Yes

4a

 

Formerly 38504, North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s) Regiment

 

Yes

 

 

Unit

2nd/9th Bn.

Yes

Yes

 

 

Rank

Private

Yes

Yes

4a, 4b

 

Service Number

53334

Yes

Yes

 

 

Date of Death

28 November 1917

Yes

Yes

 

 

October 1917

 

 

4a

 

Age at time of death

20

 

 

4a

 

Where Killed or died

Ypres salient – 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) - Zonnebeke

 

 

 

 

Belgium

 

 

4a

 

France/Flanders

 

Yes

 

 

How he died

Killed in Action

 

Yes

 

 

Location of Grave or Memorial

Tyne Cot Memorial for the Missing

Panel 123.

Yes

 

 

1

Awards

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before the war he lived with his sister, Mrs. Brandrick, at 82 Carter Street, Uttoxeter[4a].He died at Zonnebeke (Passchendaele) in Flanders, Belgium.

He went to Flanders in October 1917 and was killed barely a month later[4a]. Official confirmation of his death did not reach his sister, however, until February 1918[4a].

At the time of his death, five of his brothers were also serving in the Army[4a]. One of them had also been through the South African war[4a].

Percy has no known grave and his name is recorded on a panel in the Tyne Cot Memorial. The Memorial Panels run along the walls which surround the back of Tyne Cot Cemetery.

The Tyne Cot Cemetery and the other cemeteries in the Ypres area contain many graves of unidentified soldiers. Percy may be one of them, or he may still lie where he fell, somewhere beneath the surrounding fields