Private Percy Ewart Downing

Army Number: 266188 (formerly 3791)

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Husband of Violet Annie Downing, of 28, Cobden Street, Radford, Nottingham. Went to France on 27th October 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 28, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.