Yatton : St Mary's Church - Private Percy Payne Gravestone
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Yatton : St Mary's Church - Private Percy Payne Gravestone
Image: © Lewis Clarke Taken: 24 Jan 2022
He enlisted in March 1916, at the age of 19 years and 8 months, and was assigned as a Private in the Northumberland Fusiliers. He spent most of that year training on home soil, before being shipped out to France at the end of December. Illness seems to have dogged Private Payne; he returned to England after a couple of months, and was transferred to the Labour Corps fairly soon afterwards. By September 1917 a further transfer was made, this time to the Royal Army Medical Corps, before he was finally discharged from military service on 21st January 1918, suffering from tuberculosis. Sadly, the lung condition was to prove fatal, and Percy passed away on 26th June 1918. He was just 21 years old. https://deathandservice.co.uk/2021/07/09/cwg-private-percy-payne/
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Image Location
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51.384777
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-2.819332