Private Percy Cordon

Army Number: 26712

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Henry and Emma Cordon. Husband of Minnie Cordon, of 44, Chapel Street, Beeston, Nottingham. He was a town labourer prior to enlisting on 29th May 1915 at Nottingham into the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He went to France on 6th March 1916 and suffered gunshot wounds to his back. 6th August 1916. He was admitted to No.1 Casualty Clearing Station, Choques, France, and then transferred to England on Hospital Ship Dieppe, 22nd August 1916. He returned to France on 15th June 1917 and was posted to the 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was killed in action, 6th December 1917, age 30, whilst serving in the line near Ribecourt, France.

Commemorated: Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France. Panel 8.

Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France.

Private Percy Cordon is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the baptist War Memorial, Beeston, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.