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Percy Elwes

Private

Service No. 22747

Age 21

Died on 11 November 1916

Lincolnshire Regiment

GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, MEAULTE

Somme, France

Son of Isaac and Sarah Elwes, of Cowbit, Spalding, Lincs.

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Henry Harrison

Percy, O valiant heart, who to your glory came….your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Percy, I do not know the precise circumstances of your death, but, as a former Lincolns soldier myself, doing my National Service in 1950 w...

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