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Percy Jeeves Killed on the Somme — The Cricketer Who Inspired Wodehouse's Butler, July 1916
Warwickshire
1916-07-22
Percy Jeeves, the Warwickshire fast-medium bowler whose name P.G. Wodehouse borrowed for the most famous butler in English fiction, was killed in action at High Wood on the Somme on 22 July 1916. He was 28 and had no known grave.
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