Private Percy Carlile

Army Number : 28538 (formerly 99432 Royal Field Artillery)

Battalion : 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Whittington, Derbyshire. Son of Thomas and Sarah Ann Carlile, of 102 Holland Road, Old Whittington. He was a wagon builder at Sheepbridge Colliery prior to enlisting at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He was killed in action, 8th October 1916, in the attack on the German positions at the Schwaben Redoubt, France during the Battle of the Somme.

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

Private Percy Carlile is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Old Whittington War Memorial, Old Whittington, Derbyshire.

His brother Corporal Jack Carlile, 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.