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On 22 July 1916, Private Percy Jeeves (aged 28) was killed in action at High Wood on the Somme. He was serving in the 2nd Birmingham Pals (15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment). 

Percy has two 'claims to fame' - the 'forgotten' one being that he was a first class cricketer having played his last first-class match on 27 August 1914 for Warwickshire against Surrey.

But the claim to fame that has immortalised his name is that he was the inspiration for the character of the valet in PG Wodehouses's 'Jeeves and Wooster' series of books.

He is now remembered at Cheltenham's College Ground where Wodehouse once watched Percy Jeeves play for Warwickshire. 

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