WARD, Percy

Montecchio War Cemetery, ItalyCredit: CWGC

Private
5th Battalion
Hampshire Regiment

Percy was born 1920 in Newport to Ernest Frank & Mabel Annie (nee REYNOLDS) WARD who were living at 4 Brooklyn Cottages, Gunville in Carisbrooke around the time of Percy’s death.

Percy, aged 24, was reported as Killed in Action on the 30th of August 1944 & was originally buried close to where he fell on the battlefield. His body was later exhumed & reburied, by the 19th Graves Registration Unit, at the Montecchio War Cemetery in Italy on the 19th of April 1945. Percy now rests beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. MOTHER”, alongside 581 of his Second World War comrades.

Percy is also remembered on the Carisbrooke War Memorial. His brother Leonard Douglas also fell in World War II.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.