HEMMING Percy William

  • First Name(s):
    Percy 
    William 
  • Surname:
    HEMMING
  • Service Number:
    21396
  • Rank:

    Sergeant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    10th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    3rd July 1916
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, France, Pier and Face 5A and 6C.
  • Place of Birth:
    Born Bromsgrove, enlisted and resident Worcester
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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HEMMING Percy William Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial
Bromsgrove Independent Order of Oddfellows
Crowle School
Crowle St John the Baptist Church

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Crowle St John the Baptist Churchwith the additional information: Serg. Crowle School. Bromsgrove Independent Order of Oddfellows under Queen’s Own Royal Lodge. Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial with the information: Sergeant.

Further Information About HEMMING Percy William

Additional information on the memorial: Sergeant

Percy Hemming was born in 1884.  He attended School as a day boy from 1897 to 1904 where he was a School Monitor and played in the school XV and XI teams.  At School, Hemming was conspicuous in many ways.  He was Headmaster of Crowle School and joined up in February 1915 and became Sergeant in December.  He went out to France in July 1915 and was wounded exactly a year later.  Since that time nothing further was heard of him and his death was presumed by The War Office.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen and Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by David Cross.

Percy Hemming and his family moved to the village of Crowle in 1909 when Percy took up the position of headmaster at Crowle School.  His wife also worked in the school with him. After enlisting in the army he left the school on 5th February 1915 to go to war.  His last entry in the school logbook records his intention to serve until the end of the war or as long as his Majesty requires his service and hands over the charge of the school to Miss A.M. Wingfield.

Source for additional information:
Crowle in the Great War, The Parish in 1914.

Percy Hemming has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Thiepval Memorial.

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