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=== Private Percy Odell aged 20 === | === 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. He was one of the 57,000 casualties on day one of the Battle of the Somme and died the following day. He is buried in the Bertrancourt cemetery in France. In the Halifax Courier on 15 July 1916, there was the following obituary: | 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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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.
He was one of the 57,000 casualties on day one of the Battle of the Somme and died the following day.
He is buried in the Bertrancourt cemetery in France.
In the Halifax Courier on 15 July 1916, there was the following obituary:
