Second Lieutenant Percy John WHITEHOUSE, 3rd Battalion, Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (attached 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment), killed in action, at Hooge, Belgium, 31st October 1914, age 20.

Son of John and Florence Whitehouse, of 1, St. Augustine's Road, Belvedere, Kent.

1911 Census - 1, St. Augustine's Road, Belvedere, Kent - John Whitehouse, head, age 49, married, house keeper, contractor, worker, born Poppleton, Yorkshire; Florence Whitehouse, wife, age 49, married 18 years, 2 children, 1 still alive, shopkeeper, general stores, own account, at home, born Oxford; Percy John Whitehouse, son, age 16, single, student, secondary school, born Belvedere, Kent.

University of London, student.

29th October 1914, disembarkation; 30th October 1914, joined Battalion, In the Field.

Commemorated at  Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Addenda Panel 57, Belgium.

NOTE: Officers Died in the Great War give date of death as 31st October 1914; CWGC web site shows it as 2nd November 1914.

University of London, Officer Training Corps Roll of War Service

PERCY JOHN WHITEHOUSE Second Lieutenant Royal West Kent Regiment, East London College, son of Mr. F. Whitehouse of Belvedere, killed in action at Hooge on 2nd November 1914.

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