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Pte. Percy Reginald Everitt
British Army 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Hilgay, Norfolk
(d.12th Oct 1915)
Percy Everitt was engaged to my Nana, Louise Procter, when he went to war. I believe they were 2nd cousins.
He was wounded in the battle at Loos on 10th of October 1915 and died 2 days later on 12th October.
He was 24 at the time and Nana was 22.
When she died I found the engagement ring he gave her and a bookmark with a poem on it from Nana which read:
"How little we thought when we said goodbye
We parted for ever, and you were to die;
Oh the grief that we feel words cannot tell
We could not be with you to say farewell.
Louise Accrington."
It was 8 years before she married my Papa and they were very happy but she took a long while to get over Percy's death.