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1921-317

Private Percy Fry

Private Percy Fry (aged 20) of the 1st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Ballyvonare Military Camp, Buttevant)

Date of incident: 4 July 1921

Sources: Death Certificate, 4 July 1921; Commonwealth War Graves Commission; http://www.cairogang.com/soldiers-killed/list-1921.htmlhttp://www.cairogang.com/soldiers-killed/fry/fry.html (accessed 8 Aug. 2014).

Note: Born in 1901 and a resident of the Horse Shoe Inn in Creaton village in Northamptonshire in 1911, Private Fry died at age 20 by accidental drowning at the Ballyvonare Military Camp on 4 July 1921. His name was recorded later under 21 July 1921 in the Buttevant Register of Deaths. He was buried in Coventry.  

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