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Percy Selby Redgrave Maynard. Died 28th April 1915
Percy was born in 1893 in Sandhurst, Berkshire to father, Henry and mother Maud (nee Goswell). He was the second born and had three siblings, two brothers and an elder sister, Annie. By the age of 20, Percy had become a regular in the Royal Hampshire Regiment.
Percy had joined the Hampshires prior to around 1911 and was soon to become involved in the invasion of Turkey via Gallipoli. On the 13th February 1915, the 2nd Battalion came under the orders of the 88th Brigade in 29th Division and moved to Warwick. They sailed from Avonmouth on 29 March 1915 for Gallipoli, going via Egypt and landed at Cape Helles on 25 April 1915. Percy was to die only six days after landing.
The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. On 6 August, further landings were made at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three fronts. However, the difficult terrain and stiff Turkish resistance soon led to the stalemate of trench warfare. From the end of August, no further serious action was fought and the lines remained unchanged. The peninsula was successfully evacuated in December and early January 1916.
Name: MAYNARD, PERCY SELBY REDGRAVE
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment Unit Text: 2nd Battalion.
Date of Death: 28/04/1915
Service No:8390
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 125-134 or 223-226 228-229 & 328. Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL, The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. On 6 August, further landings were made at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three fronts. However, the difficult terrain and stiff Turkish resistance soon led to the stalemate of trench warfare. From the end of August, no further serious action was fought and the lines remained unchanged. The peninsula was successfully evacuated in December and early January 1916.
Sandhurst, Berkshire