Reply postcard for the medals of Private Percy Crofts Ottley, sent to Mrs Ethel Annie Ottley, dated 31 May 1922
Army Form W.5132, from a collection of service papers, photographs and documents relating to the death in action of Private P C Ottley, London Scottish on 23 November 1917.
Private Percy Crofts Ottley (service number 515413) served with the 14th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (London Scottish) during World War One (1914-1918). The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records the death of Private Ottley on the 23 November 1917, aged 32, on the Cambrai Memorial at Louveral. Ottley was born in Ranskill, Nottinghamshire on 31 August 1885. Before the war Ottley was a bank clerk with Messrs Beckett and Company of Doncaster.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 2004-11-115-15
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2004-11-115-15