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=== Private Percy Odell aged 20 ===
Percy Odell lived at 2 Halifax Lane with his mother Mary Hannah and sister Beatrice. His father George and brother Albert had had both died some years previously. He worked as a mill hand at Clay and Co, Luddenden Foot, and enlisted in October 1915. <br>
He was one of the 57,000 casualties on day one of the Battle of the Somme and died the following day.<br>

He is buried in the Bertrancourt cemetery in France.<br>
<br>In the Halifax Courier on 15 July 1916, there was the following obituary:

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