Pte Percy Walter Manton, 22846, 'D' Company, 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, was taken as a prisoner of war at Beaucourt-sur-Ancre in France on February 11th, 1917, and was held captive in Germany until he was repatriated at the end of the war.
His prisoner of war records show he was held variously at the Limburg, Friedrichsfeld and Parchim camps. He was included on Luton's 1918 absent voters list but then spent most of his life residing at 14 Chobham Street.
