Lost and found, a memory retrieved of a man who put others first until the very end. Even in his remembrance, he brings a family together 100 years later
On a wet, cool day in late April in Toronto, 60 members of my extended family attended a memorial service for a relative whom none of us had ever met. We came together from Canada, the United States and Europe because the Canadian military had informed our family that they had found Corporal Frederick Percival Bousfield.
And so, 10 years after he was killed, Percy was “lost” again. For more than a century, Percy remained lost and, with no known grave, his name was duly engraved on the Menin Gate Memorial. He was born on March 8, 1896, in Cotehill, Cumberland, England. Percy was the third eldest in a family of five boys and four girls, with my grandfather, Reginald, one of his younger brothers.
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