Percy was born in 1894 in Cambridge to John James Sherman, a manufacturers clerk and Elizabeth.
They had 4 children-
Blanche Mabel 1892
Clarence Percy 1894
Beatrice Maude 1895
James Cyril 1898
In 1901 census the family lived at 21 Fleetwood Rd.
In 1911 they were at 155 Noble St. and Percy was a mechanic.
Percy enlisted from 50 Matlock Street and became Private 200499 1/4th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment and Died of Wounds on 21.4.1917. He is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery, Calais, France.