Private 4487 & 266730 George Percy LEAR
1st/5th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
Killed in Action, Saturday 1st July 1916, France, Age 22
Home address:
238 Muslin Street*, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1894, Westbury, Wiltshire
Parents:
Kate Lear and George Lear
238 Muslin Street*, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Spreader Leather Cloth
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, pier 3.
Link to Hyde:
Lived in Hyde
In the 1921 Cenotaph Unveiling Booklet his name is given as Percy Lear.
A Message of Remembrance, written for Werneth Low Cenotaph Unveiling, 25th June 1921:
In loving memory of Pte. Percy Lear of 5th Cheshires, who was reported missing and now resting among the unknown heroes in a foreign land.
From father, mother, brothers and sisters.
From father, mother, brothers and sisters.
* Muslin Street is now Talbot Road. See our notes on Old Place Names.