Percy Wasley Caudle

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

270327

Unit at enlistment:

215th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

July 21st, 1918

Cemetery:

Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension - Pas de Calais, France - IV.F.24.

Commemorated at:

Massey-Harris Memorial Plaque (Toronto), Cheltenham War Memorial, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Gloucestershire

Birth city:

Cheltenham

Address at enlistment:

5 Station Street, Blaengarw, Wales

Next of kin address:

51 Colborne Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Clerk

Employer:

Massey-Harris Co.

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Died of Wounds (Shrapnel Wounds Legs and Left Hand). At about 3 o’clock on the morning of July 21st, 1918, he was “standing to” at his post in Dee Trench near Arras, when an enemy 4.1 shell exploded in the bay severely wounding him. After receiving immediate attention from the stretcher bearers, he was evacuated to a Field Ambulance and later to No. 57 Casualty Clearing Station where he died about 3.45 p.m. the same day.

BX August 19, 1918

G.M. Giloch, 22 Cayuga Street, has just received word that Private Percy Wasley Caudle, who left here with the 215th Battalion was severely wounded on July 21, and died of wounds the same day while undergoing an operation. He was hit in both legs and in the hand. Private Caudle was formerly employed as shipping clerk at the Massey-Harris plant in this city. He had also served as a volunteer in the South African War.