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Percy Victor 1893 - 1972

Percy Victor was born in Welling Kent in June 1893.  The third child of William Joshua and Annie Pope, he worked in the printing industry as a compositor.

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He served in the First World War as a member of Duke of Cambridge's Own Regiment (the Middlesex) and demobbed in 1920. 

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His wife, Agnes Mary, was born Banks, but had married William McTaggart in 1917. William was also a member of the Middlesex regiment. William died in December 1919 at the age of 27, when they had been married little more than 2 years. In September 1922 Agnes married again, this time to Percy Victor. A year after their marriage a first child was born, and a second was born in 1929.

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In later years Agnes and Percy lived with Agnes sister Grace at 3 Southbrook Road, Lewisham, Percy outliving both sisters when he died in 1972. Both his children married and also lived at Southbrook Road at times,

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His two children, grandchildren and great grandchildren survive him at the point of writing, October 2019.

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