In Memory of PERCY LOCKYER Private 29828 2nd/7th Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiment who died on Friday, 5th April 1918. Age 19.
In the 1911 census he is listed as the son of Albert and Jane LOCKYER, of Frogham, (on Frogham Hill). He is 12 years old and still attending school and has 7 brothers and sisters.
Commemorative Information
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN, France. P. VII. B. 4B.
The cemetery and extension is situated 3 kilometres south of Rouen Cathedral. The British camps and hospitals and the 3rd Echelon of General headquarters were established at Rouen. The majority of the dead were taken to St Sever and there are over 8,500 graves from the 1914 -18 war.
Source – Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Notes
Pte. LOCKYER’s 2nd/7th Bn.Royal Warwicks, was part of the 61st (South Midland) Division. The 61st Division was in the front line, opposite St Quentin, when the Germans launched their great spring offensive on 21st March 1918, which they expected to win before the growing numbers of American soldiers arrived in France. The 61st Division, performed most creditably, holding on to their battle zone intact until nightfall, and inflicting heavy casualties on their attackers. However the 61st Division line gave way south of St. Quentin and the Fifth Army retreated back across the old Somme battlefields.
Source – work done by Carole Standeven