Percy Fever Street in Halswell and nothing on the library website. From the council website . The Board decided to request that staff investigate options for inclusion of Anzac insignia on the street signs for Harry Manship Crescent and Percy Fever Street.
This young man took a bit of searching as Percy Fever wasn’t his real name but he is on the Halswell War Memorial under that name. He is mentioned in an article about Halswell’s Heroes in December 1916. He was killed in action on 21st September 1916 at the Somme and is buried at Sailly-Au-Bois Cemetery under the surname Perrett. His real name was Reuben Percy Claud Perrott and Fever was his stepfather’s surname. His father Arthur Ernest Perrott deserted his mother Harriet in 1895 and she eventually got a divorce in 1902. She remarried Frederick Fever a few months later. Note she already had at least one child to Frederick Fever before they were able to get married. Percy’s mother was pregnant with him when his father disappeared so he only ever knew Frederick as a father.
This street isn’t on the map yet and is still being formed and it runs off Harry Manship Crescent. I will have to come back in a couple of years time to walk it properly but decided to write it up anyway.
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