Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he...

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Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

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Page 1: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Page 2: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 164 Marlborough Road.

Died of wounds on 11 May 1917,aged 27, in northern France.

Page 3: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 21 Marlborough Road and then 48 Chilswell Road.

Died of wounds on 7 or 9 September 1917, aged 21, in northern France.

Page 4: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Worked for the butchers RR Alden & Son, who were based at Eastwyck Farm on the Abingdon Road.

Died of wounds on 7 or 9 September 1917, aged 21, in northern France.

Page 5: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 7 Whitehouse Road.

Killed in action on20 September 1917, aged 30, near Langemarck inWest Flanders, Belgium.

Page 6: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His wife Anne Louise lived at 20 Buckingham Street.

Died from wounds on 18 August 1918, aged 27, at the Somme in France.

Page 7: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 72 Marlborough Road.

Killed in action on 23 July 1916, aged 23, at the Battle of Pozieres on the Somme in France.

Page 8: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His family lived at31 Western Road.

Killed in action on28 February 1917, aged 24,at the Somme in France.

Page 9: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 218 and then at220 Marlborough Road.

Died as a result of a bomb explosion on 11 January 1915, aged 32, in Flanders,northern France.

Page 10: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His family lived at33 Newton Road.

Killed in action on2 September 1918, aged 24,on the Somme innorthern France.

Page 11: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His family lived at 80 Chilswell Road.

Died on 21 November 1917, aged 21, at the Battle of Cambraiin northern France.

Page 12: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at ‘The Haven’ at the far southern end of the Abingdon Road, in the area known as Cold Harbour.

Died of illness on 5 December 1916, aged 33, in England.

Page 13: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 26 Buckingham Street.

Died of wounds on 10 August 1919, aged 49, in Oxford.

Page 14: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 21 Western Road, 42 and 78 Chilswell Road, and then73 Abingdon Road.

Killed in a trench collapse on3 December 1916, aged 24,at Hebuterne, France.

Page 15: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 3 Bridewell Square off St Aldates; his family moved to 266 Marlborough Road in 1915/16.

Killed in action on 28 April 1917, aged 25, at Arras in France.

Page 16: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 218 Abingdon Road, Cold Harbour.

Killed in action on 3 May 1917, aged 32, at the Battle of Arras in France.

Page 17: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His mother lived in Cumnorafter the War.

Killed in action on 24 March 1918, aged 29, in northern France.

Page 18: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His wife and her family lived at 29 Western Road.

Killed in action on 3 August 1918, aged 29,in northern France.

Page 19: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 14 Newton Road.

Killed in action on 23 July 1916, aged 18, at the Battle of Pozieres on the Somme in France.

Page 20: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His wife's family lived at 34 Western Road.

Died of bronchial pneumonia on 18 December 1918, aged 28, in Alexandria, Egypt.

Page 21: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 4 Edith Road. Died of wounds on 10 July 1918, aged 18, near Ypres in northern France.

Page 22: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 60 Marlborough Road.

Killed in action on 3 February 1918, aged 20, in northern France.

Page 23: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 198 Marlborough Road.

Died on 11 March 1916, aged 30, in Oxford, having been wounded at the Battle of Loos five months earlier.

Page 24: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 198 Marlborough Road.

Killed in action on 26 March 1918, aged 27, at the Battle of St Quentin on the Somme in France.

Page 25: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 198 Marlborough Road.

Died of disease on 25 February 1919, aged 19, in northern France.

Page 26: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at Sunnyside, now 92 (then 66) Botley Road.

Died of wounds on 16 May 1917, aged 22, in France.

Page 27: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 122 Marlborough Road.

Reported missing on 22 August 1917, presumed killed in action, aged 27, in Flanders.

Page 28: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 147 Marlborough Road.

Killed in action on 19 September 1914, aged 20 or 21, near Mons in France.

Page 29: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 5 Weirs Lane and then at Woodbine Cottage,Abingdon Road .

Died on 17 March 1917 from blackwater fever, aged 20,in Dar es Salaam, the capitalof German East Africa.

Page 30: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 12 Edith Road.

Died of wounds on 21 March 1918, aged 20, at the Battle of St Quentin on the Somme in France.

Page 31: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 2 Jubilee Terrace in early adulthood.

Killed in action on 3 May 1917, aged 29, at the Battle of Arrasin France.

Page 32: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 192 Abingdon Road and then at 17 Sunningwell Road.

Killed in action on 23 July 1916, aged 21, at the Battle of Pozieres on the Somme in France.

Page 33: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Born at 50 Chilswell Road and later lived at 86 Chilswell Road.

Died of Spanish influenza on12 April 1919, aged 19, at the Endell Street military hospital in Covent Garden in London.

Page 34: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 174 Marlborough Road.

Died of bronchial pneumoniaon 9 February 1919, aged 41,in Oxford.

Page 35: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 15 Marlborough Road.

Died on 24 September 1919, aged 52, in Oxford.

Page 36: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 118 Marlborough Roadand later at 46 Chilswell Road.

Died on 27 November 1917, aged 32, at the Battle of Cambrai innorthern France.

Page 37: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Spent some time in Oxford undergoing cadet training at the 2 School of Military Aeronautics.

Killed on 26 March 1918in an aeronautical accident,aged 18, at Manston in Kent.

Page 38: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Grew up at 172 Marlborough Road.

Killed in action on 1 July 1916, aged 26, at Fromelles in northern France.

Page 39: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Grew up at the Farrier's Arms pub, Cold Harbour, at the far southern end of the Abingdon Road.

Died on 10 August 1918, aged 19,at the Somme in France.

Page 40: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 242 Marlborough Road.

Killed in action on 21 March 1918, aged 19, at the Battle of St Quentinon the Somme in France.

Page 41: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 6 Cobden Crescent, then at 64 Sunningwell Road; his family moved to 8 Western Road in 1922.

Killed in action on 7 August 1917, aged 20, at Ypres in Belgium.

Page 42: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His parents lived at 31 Edith Road.

Died on 24 October 1918, aged 19, north-east of Cambraiin northern France.

Page 43: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His family lived at 43 Western Road.

Died of bronchial pneumonia as a result of Spanish influenza, on 2 November 1918, aged 30, in Seattle, Washington State, USA. Did not fight in the War.

Page 44: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at Riverside House, near Long Bridges on the Thames towpath.

Killed in action on 24 or 25 April 1917, aged 21, in Greece.

Page 45: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 46 Marlborough Road.

Died 10 August 1915, aged 27,at Gallipoli.

Page 46: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Grew up at 256 Marlborough Road.

Killed in action on 23 July 1916, aged 30,at the Battle of Pozieres on the Sommein France.

Page 47: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 23 Buckingham Street and 24 Marlborough Road;his family subsequently lived at 21 and 24 Western Road.

Missing, believed killed,on 9 October 1917, aged 28,in Belgium.

Page 48: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His family lived at30 Marlborough Road.

Killed in action on 19 July 1916, aged 20, at Fromelles, France.

Page 49: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lodged at 44 Western Road.

Killed in action on3 May 1917, aged 25,at the Battle of Arrasin France.

Page 50: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 57 Western Road and in 1914 or 1915 his family moved to 102 Marlborough Road. Killed in action on 4 November 1914, aged 29, in Belgium.

Page 51: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 57 Western Road and in 1914 or 1915 his family moved to 102 Marlborough Road.

Died of wounds on 23 July 1916, aged 26, at Fromelles,northern France.

Page 52: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 8 and then16 Western Road.

Died of wounds on 31 October 1917, aged 24, near Vimy innorthern France.

Page 53: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Born at 19 Buckingham Streetand subsequently lived at60 Abingdon Road.

Killed on 11 April 1917, aged 19,at Arras in France.

Page 54: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived in Newton Road (possibly at no. 23). Killed in action on1 October 1917, aged 28,at Ypres in Belgium.

Page 55: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 35 Western Road, then at 24 Buckingham Street and then at 17 Western Road.

Died of wounds on10 December 1917, aged 40, in Flanders.

Page 56: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 15 Cobden Crescent.

Killed in action on31 December 1915, aged 20,at Hebuterne in France.

Page 57: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 44 and then at 80 Chilswell Road. Died of wounds on4 September 1918, aged 30, at the Somme in France.

Page 58: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lodged somewhere in Grandpont.

Died of wounds on 14 July 1916, aged 18, at Fromelles in northern France.

Page 59: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at The Elms, 158 Abingdon Road. Died of wounds on 18 October 1916,aged 23, at the Somme in France.

Page 60: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His family lived at4 Jubilee Terrace.

Died of pneumonia on26 December 1915, aged 21,in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).

Page 61: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 27 Buckingham Street and later at 6 Kineton Road. Killed in action on7 October 1916, aged 19,at the Somme in France.

Page 62: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 19 Edith Road.

Killed on 1 July 1916, aged 27, at the Battle of Gommecourt on the Somme, France.

Page 63: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lodged somewhere in Grandpont.

Died on 23 July 1916, aged 38,at the Battle of Pozieres on the Sommein France.

Page 64: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 37 and later 122 Marlborough Road.

Died on 26 September 1916, aged 35,at the Somme in France.

Page 65: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His family lived at236 Marlborough Road.

Missing, presumed killed in action, 13-15 August 1916, aged 22,at the Somme in France.

Page 66: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

His family lived at236 Marlborough Road.

Killed in action, 13-15 August 1916, aged 32, on the Somme in France.

Page 67: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 49 Marlborough Road.

Killed on 30 December 1915, aged 19, in an explosion aboard HMS Natal in the Cromarty Firth in Scotland.

Page 68: Something of a mystery: the only PC Ash that we can find in Grandpont was Percy Charles Ash, but he survived the War and was still alive in 1935.

Lived at 49 Marlborough Road.

Died of small pox on 22 November 1918,aged 31, in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).