Percy Storey | |
Birth Name: | Percival Wright Storey |
Birth Date: | 11 February 1897 |
Birth Place: | Temuka, New Zealand |
Death Place: | Timaru, New Zealand |
Ru Position: | Wing three-quarter |
Height: | 1.750NaN0 |
Weight: | 81kg (179lb) |
Ru Nationalteam: | New Zealand Army |
Ru Nationalyears: | 1919 1920–21 |
Ru Nationalcaps: | 2 |
Ru Nationalpoints: | (3) |
Ru Provinceyears: | 1920–24 |
Ru Provincecaps: | 10 |
Relatives: | Laurel McAlister (sister) |
Percival Wright Storey (11 February 1897 – 4 October 1975) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A wing three-quarter, Storey represented at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1920 to 1921. He played 10 matches for the All Blacks including two internationals, scoring a total of 50 points (16 tries and one conversion).[1]
Born at Temuka on 11 February 1897,[1] Storey was one of three children of Elizabeth Storey (née Wright) and her husband, William Storey, a tailor. His older sister, Laurel, became a noted community leader, and his older brother, Robert, was killed in action on the Western Front in 1917.[2]
Storey served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force as a sergeant in the Otago Infantry Regiment during World War I. He enlisted in July 1916 and was wounded by shrapnel in his right thigh at Passchendaele in October 1917.[1] [3] After the conclusion of the war, he was a member of the New Zealand Army rugby team that won the King's Cup and then toured South Africa, scoring 13 tries.[1]
During World War II, Storey served in the army in New Zealand as a warrant officer class 1 from 1940 to 1945.[3] He died at Timaru on 4 October 1975.[1]