Percy Millard, Reach (Photo: Burwell Museum)
The Green, Reach
History of the Green, Reach
Approx. location:
1911
Saunders Millard, 41, farm labourer, b Bottisham
Charlotte, 41, b Bottisham
Percy Harold, 15, farm labourer, b Bottisham
Charles Edward, 12, b Bottisham
Maggie Oswath, 9, b Fen Ditton
Violet Snowdrop, 4, b Reach
Percy had joined up with Alfred Whitmore in the Cambridge Volunteer Battalion. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme Percy was wounded and Alfred was killed. Percy died in hospital in Abbeville ten days later.
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