Beaver P G Staff Sergt 1268 Army Ordnance Corps

Beaver P G Staff Sergt 1268 Army Ordnance Corps

BEAVER, PERCIVAL GRANVILLE, Staff-Sergt., No. 1268, Army Ordnance Corps, s. of Charles Herbert Beaver, of Greenwich, S.E., by his wife, Charlotte Fleming, dau. of James Cole; b. Greenwich, S.E., 26 April, 1887; educ. Bellevue House there; was an Electrical Engineer; enlisted 7 Aug. 1916; served with the Salonika Army from Jan. 1917, and died at No. 80 General Hospital, Salonika, 30 Sept. 1918, from illness contracted while on active service. Buried in the Hortiach Cemetery, Salonika. A comrade wrote: “I can truthfully say he was the best-liked N.C.O. in the camp, and as a chum he was unsurpassable.” He m. at St. Silas Church, Waverley Park, S.E., 11 Nov. 1916, Doris Kathleen (114, Drakefell Road, New Cross, S.E.), dau. of William Geere; s.p.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

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