On this day 1st July 2014
by Unknown - 14:12 on 01 July 2014
Today 1st July 2014 I would like to share with you, with kind permission of Alison Bucklow, information about Corporal Percy Daft (265328) who was killed in action on 1st July 1916. Percy was born 1888 in Nottingham, the fifth child of Francis and Mary Jane Daft. Francis and Mary had nine children, four sons and five daughters. He fought with 1/7th (Robin Hood) Battalion Territorial Force as Corporal 265328.
On 4th August 1914 the 1/7th were formed at Nottingham as part of the Notts & Derby Brigade of the North Midland Division and then moved to Harpenden and then to Braintree.
On 25th February 1915 they were mobilised for war and landed in France. On 12th May 1915 they became part of the 139th Brigade and the 46th Division which engaged in various actions on the Western Front including, the German liquid fire attack at Hooge, and the attack at the Hohenzollern Redoubt in 1915.
In 1916 they were part of the diversionary attack at Gommecourt in which Percy was killed, his body was not found.
He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial as well as on his parents’ memorial in Nottingham General Cemetery.
Percy’s square has been stitched by Alison in memory of Percy, great uncle to her husband and can be seen in the Gallery.
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