Percival

• Percival Wemys Madison, of the Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, Hants, as he has been taught to introduce himself, is "mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother” (p.62)
• Along with Johnny, Percival is the smallest littlun.
• He recites his name and address as a comfort mechanism (he recites it – p.102 – when scared about the beast but it is “powerless to help him”) but has sadly forgotten it by the time the naval officer arrives… 
• We first hear about him when we learn that the littluns are not so much taken care of as downright neglected by the older boys. Percival can't handle it. He crawls into a shelter and "stay[s] there for two days, talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused. Ever since then he had been peaked, red-eyed, and miserable; a littleun who played and cried often” (p.61).