b. 20/08/1894 Orillia, Ontario, Canada. d. 11/03/1943 Orillia, Ontario, Canada.
DATE OF AM ACTION: 23/12/1915 and 11/02/1916 La Clyte, France.
Percy F Annis AM
Percy was one of six children born to William Lorne Annis and his wife Mary Agnes (nee Webber). He enlisted on the 9th November 1914 in Toronto, Ontario and served in Canada, France, and Great Britain. Following his two actions which led to the award of the AM, he received the medal from the Governor General of Canada, following his return at the end of the war.
On 2nd November 1918, he married Margaret Viola Baker in York, Ontario, and they went on to have two children – Robert Fairborn and Donald Stuart. Percy died of TB on 11th March 1943 following complications with his war wounds, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.
AM CITATION:
On the 23rd December, 1915, Annis was instructing a class in the use of the trench catapult, when a lighted bomb fell from the catapult into the trench. Annis at once picked up the bomb and threw it away. On the llth February, 1916, on a similar occasion, the catapult failed to act properly, with the result that the bomb was thrown only a short distance, and fell close to another party under instruction. Annis at once ran out to pick up the bomb. The bomb exploded just as he reached it and wounded him.
BURIAL LOCATION: MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY, TORONTO, CANADA.
SECTION 28 LOT 947.
LOCATION OF MEDAL: UNKNOWN.
