Major Claude Victor Noble Percival

 

 

Major Claude Victor Noble Percival

 1872-1914

 Dress Tunic, c. 1909

 

 Percival was the son of Major General Lewis Percival, late of the Rifle Brigade. He entered the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1889 and was gazetted to the Rifle Brigade in 1892. Percival became a lieutenant in 1895 and served in British Central Africa in 1899. He earned his captaincy in 1900 and served in Southern Nigeria from 1901 to 1902. From 1905 to 1912, Percival was employed with the Egyptian Army as part of the Soudan Civil Administration. He was promoted to major in 1909 and served as Acting Governor of Halfa Province in 1911. Percival went to France with the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade in November of 1914. On December 14, 1914, he was shot through the heart and killed instantaneously, while superintending a digging party at night near Laventie. Percival was buried in the Tilleloy cemetery.