8th December 2015 Percy was born on September 1st1894 in Stamford. In 1901, his parents Sarah and Ernest Frederick lived in 9 Cecil Terrace and he had an older brother Ernest, born in 1888. By 1911 they had moved to “Highfield” – a 9 roomed house in Kings Road, which has now been demolished. On January 2nd 1915 Percy enlisted with the 2/4 Lincolnshire Territorials. He was tall, 5ft 10ins and weighed152lbs. He was compulsorily transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps in October 1917 and embarked for France in February 1917. By the end of March he was in a field hospital suffering from trench feet. He was transferred to Rouen in April and then sent back to England and spent 63 days in hospital, firstly in Chichester then in Eastbourne. During this time he passed his test as a fitter. He was transferred to Dublin in October 1918 and demobbed In May 1919. He married Alice Beryl Holmes in Stamford in 1923. In 1939 he had a radio shop at 37 Broad Street and was living at 53 Queens Walk, he died in Stamford in March 1972.