Percy Meinke

Private Percy Wilhelm Meinke was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1891, in Chelsea, the son of German-born tailor Henry and Louisa Meinke (née Wilkins), of Langford. At the time of the 1911 census, the Meinke family were residing at 35 Camera Square.
Meinke died on 14 March 1915, on the Western Front, while serving with the 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment). He had arrived in France in November 1914,Ancestry.com. British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. and was a pre-war volunteer. A younger brother, William, a rifleman in the London Irish Rifles, died in April 1917.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Le Touret Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Meinke, Percy, cwgc.org. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
Category:1891 births
Category:1915 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Le Touret Memorial
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