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Identity
Person No.
11612
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Percy John
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P J
Date of Birth
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Age at Death
29
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Killed in action, at Delville Wood. Clive Featherstone (1st Bn B Coy) was still holding on in Strand Street. With him was Capt Percy John Jowett, 29 (1st Bn A Coy). Featherstone recalled: "Major Burges sent his orderly to call me to instruct me about a withdrawal. Captain Jowett of C Company went with me. We found that Major Burges had been killed by another shell bursting over his head; Captain Jowett went back for instructions while I remained in charge of both companies, Capt Jowett being the last officer left to C Company. I watched him as he walked back through a world heaving with explosions and sprayed with shrapnel till he disappeared in the drifting smoke and dust for ever."
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Son of Herbert T. and Elizabeth Marie Jowett, of "Highcliff," 33, Grange Rd., Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Also served in South Africa and Egypt. A former bank clerk who had been born in the Isle of Wight. From 1911-12 he served in the Middlesex Yeomanry, then as a lieutenant and captain with the Duke's (2nd Infantry) in South West Africa.
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South African War Graves Project