Percy James Belcher

"D" Company, 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment)

Lieutenant Percy James Belcher was shot and nearly killed by a German sniper in 1915 in Flanders. After returning to Canada, he joined a new overseas battalion being raised in Edmonton by his influential father and returned overseas.

Desperate to reach the front once more, he reverted his rank to rejoin the 49th Battalion (E.R.) in France in the summer of 1917. He was killed that October at Passchendaele leading “D” Company into their deadliest attack of the war, aged 27.