Lance Corporal Percival Dallyn

Army Number: 21972

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Sheffield. Son of Richard and Mary Dallyn, of 578, Chesterfield. Road, Sheffield. Husband of Annie Blackwell (formerly Dallyn), of 144, Lansdowne Road, Sharrow, Sheffield. He was a labourer prior to enlisting at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He was killed in action on 5th July 1916, aged 27, in the attack on the German positions at La Boisselle, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers-La Boisselle, France. Plot 6. Row J. Grave 9.

Lance Corporal Percival Dallyn is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Sheffield City Roll of Honour, City Hall and Local Studies Library, Sheffield.