Percy, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalions of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and the 1st Battalion of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment myself, doing my National Service in 1950-51 in relative peacetime conditions, although very sad to read about your sacrifice, I am pleased to be given this opportunity to salute you as a brave officer who lost his life in the service of his country in the severe fighting on the Somme. I can but quote the memorial hymn again, “All you had hoped for, all you had you gave to save mankind – yourself you scorned to save”.

Henry Harrison