WW1 Casualty: Lieutenant Percy Dale Kendall - Lieutenant Percy Dale Kendall
Lt P D Kendall
| Unit/Regiment |
10th Bn., King's (LIverpool) Regiment |
| Date of Death |
25/01/1915 |
Age at Death |
36 |
Burial/Memorial
& Reference |
Kemmel Churchyard
Sp Mem 14 |
| CWGC Family Details (if shown) |
Son of Francis Henry Kendall and Margaret Eulalie (nee Whittle), of Liverpool.
Husband of Kathrine Minnie Bingham Kendall (nee Higginson), married 1910.
At time of Percy's death, Kathrine lived at The Glebe House, Walmer, Kent. She never re-married and died in 1963.
Children:-
Janet E B (b 1911) and Timothy B D (b 1913)
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| Census Details |
1881 - West End Villa, West St, Prescot
1901 - 39, Highfield South, Birkenhead
1911 - 30c The Village Lower Bebington Cheshire
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| Birth/Marriage/Death Registrations |
Born on 21st August 1878, Prescot |
| SDGW - Where Born |
Prescot |
| How Died |
Killed in Action |
Theatre of War |
France & Flanders |
| Research Ref. No. |
P334 |
Service DetailsWith thanks to RD for identifying Lt Kendall as a native of Prescot, therefore allowing me to add him to the Roll of Honour
West End Villas, sited at the junction of West Street and Derby Street. This picture was taken in 1903, some 20 years after the Kendall family had moved. The house has now been demolished
Percy Kendall was born in Prescot in 1878, the eldest son of Francis and Margaret Kendall. Francis was a Solicitor and native of Stratford upon Avon. He was listed under the heading "Nobility" in the 1881 Slater's Directory of Prescot. He operated as part of the company "Banks & Kendall" of High Street.
Attended Ellaray School , New Brighton; Tonbridge (1890-96); Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Employed as a Solicitor (Banks, Kendall and Taylor - Liverpool)
Rugby clubs:- Cambridge University, Blackheath, Birkenhead Park
Position :- Scrum half
England caps :- 3 (1901 v S; 1902 v W; 1903 v S); Captain (1 v Scotland 1903)
Also represented:- Barbarians; Cheshire (captain 1905 v NZ); North of England
Other sports :- Yachting (Member Royal Mersey Yacht Club)
Percy was a pre-war Territorial Volunteer with 8th (Scottish) King's Liverpool Regiment (1900-06). In the 1908 reforms of the Territorial Force, the King's ended up with 5 Territorial Battalions, one of which was the 10th (Scottish) Battalion.
He was gazetted as a Second Lieutenant on 14th October 1914 and went to France with the 10th Bn on 1st November 1914. They sailed from Southampton at 3:00 pm aboard the ss 'Maidan', arriving at Le Havre at 7:00 am the following morning.
On the 4th of November they moved to St Omer, then to Blendecques on the 5th, where they went into billets. By 25th November, they had reached Westoutre and two days later they went into the front line for the first time, close to Wytschaete.
The trenches were, in some places, just 40 yards from the German lines, and in th few days they were here, they were constantly harassed by German sniper fire, with Capt. Twentyman being killed on 29th November.
They moved back to Westoutre on 30th November and remained out of the line for the remainder of 1914.
On 8th January 1915, the battalion marched to Kemmel and went into a rota of four days in and four days out of the front line. The regimental history records that little of note happened in January, but that Lt P D Kendall was killed, victim of a sniper, on 25th.
An extract from the Battalion War Diary reporting Lt Kendall's death
Percy Kendall's entry in the National Probate Register
Ian Riley, an expert on the Liverpool Scottish, also tells me, "Paraphrased from the diary of Captain Bryden McKinnell, Machine Gun officer of the 1/10th (Scottish) Bn.,
At night, at Battalion HQ, news from the right trench that Toggie Kendall was shot through the shoulder. We all laughed saying, "Lucky Beggar", expecting to see him soon come in soon saying, "Three months' holiday." But we soon got a phone message that he was killed, having lived only one minute, being killed by a ricochet off a tree - awfully bad luck. They buried him next evening, next to Fred Turner. Strange, the one-time captains of Scotland and England [Turner and Kendal respectively] to be buried together in a beastly small Flemish churchyard [Kemmel]. The Doctor [Noel Chavasse] and his Staff made very pretty graves for them.
The graves were subsequently lost although the location could probably be fixed to within a few yards from photos taken at the time. Toggie Kendal and Fred Turner now have special memorials side by side on the edge of the churchyard. This is on the other side of the church to the other CWGC headstones/memorials."
At time of Percy's death, his wife Kathrine lived at The Glebe House, Walmer, Kent. She never re-married and died in 1963
Percy Dale Kendall is not commemorated on any of the memorials in Prescot. He is, however, commemorated on the following:-
- Blackheath FC memorial
- Tonbridge School War Memorial (Chapel Cloister)
- St Andrew's Church, Bebington
- Liverpool Scottish memorial (St Georges Hall)
- Liverpool Cricket and Rugby Clubs Memorial (Aigburth)
Lt Kendall's grave at Kemmel Churchyard, courtesy of Johan Moors
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