Percy Lyulph Wyndham

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Percy Lyulph Wyndham was born on 5th December, 1887 at Saighton Grange, Chester. He was the son of Rt. Hon George Wyndham M.P. and Sibell Mary Wyndham, Countess Grosvenor (nee Lumley) (widow of the late Lord Grosvenor). Percy enlisted in the Coldstream Guards in 1909 and was commissioned as a Lieutenant in May, 1910. At the time of the 1911 Census he was living at 35 Park Lane, London, W.1. He married Diana Lister (the daughter of Lord Ribblesdale) at St. George's, Hanover Square, London, on 17th April, 1913. There were no children of the marriage. In the same year Percy's father died. He was awarded the Victory and British War Medals as well as the 1914/15 Star. He was missing presumed killed in action whilst serving with the 11th Guards Brigade at the Battle of Aisne, Near Soissons, France, on 9th September 1914 and his name appears on La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, Ile-de-France, France. He is also remembered on the East Knoyle War Memorial and on a plaque provided by his grandmother, Madeleine Wyndham, who lost five grandchildren in the war including Percy's cousin George Heremon Wyndham from Clouds House, East Knoyle.