P.+ROWLEY

18765 Private Percy Rowley of the 9 th  (Service) Battalion the York and Lancaster Regiment. Posted missing Sunday 16 September 1917, aged 34. Listed on the memorial for the missing, Tyne Cot, Belgium. When he enlisted at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday 11 February 1915, Percy Rowley gave his place of residence as Springwell Cottages, Stonebroom. At enlistment he gave his occupation as Coal Miner. But Percy Rowley had not long since before been a professional soldier.