WHALAN, Richard Percy
| Service Number: | 477 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 May 1916, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 1st Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Oberon, New South Wales, Australia, 3 December 1886 |
| Home Town: | Oberon, Oberon, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Oberon, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Tram Conductor |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 18 September 1918, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bathurst War Memorial Carillon, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Oberon Shire Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 15 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 477, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 477, 1st Machine Gun Company, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 477, 1st Machine Gun Company, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 18 Sep 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 477, 1st Machine Gun Battalion , "The Last Hundred Days", --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 477 awm_unit: 1st Australian Machine Gun Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-09-18 |
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Richard Percy (Perce) WHALAN, born 1886, registered at Oberon; a Methodist unmarried tramway conductor aged 29 and residing at 32 Ruthven Street, Waverley NSW. Perce enlisted on 15 May 1916 and was embarked on HMAT Ulysses [A38] at Melbourne on 25 October 1916, a Corporal in the the 1st Battalion, Australian Machine Gun Corps, AIF SERN: 477; he left Australia in 1916 and sailed to England being the first since Charles (great grand farther) left in 1791.
† Perce died aged 31 years in the 2nd battle of the Somme on 18 September 1918; buried at Roisel War Cemetery France (Grave I.G. 14)
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