BLAND, PERCIVAL CHARLES, Private, No. 442940, 27th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of the late Charles Bland, by his wife, Margaret Harman (79, Ryland Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham), dau. of the late Edward Skinner, of Edgbaston, Birmingham; and brother to Gunner A. E. Bland (q.v.); b. Birmingham, co. Warwick, 30 Jan. 1889; educ. St. George’s School, Edgbaston; went to Canada in 1913, and settled at Nelson, British Columbia, as an Accountant on the Staff of the Hudson Bay Company; volunteered for foreign service and joined the Canadian Infantry 2 June, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from April, 1916; was reported missing after the fighting on the Somme 15 Sept. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was loved by all the officers of his platoon, and all men thought so much of him throughout his regiment.”
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5