INGRAMS, Percy Thomas
| Service Number: | 812 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 February 1916, An original of C Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England, 1900 |
| Home Town: | Warwick, Southern Downs, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Electical Engineer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 6 September 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Cerisy-Gailly French National Cemetery, France Plot I, Row D, Grave No. 1. A YOUNG LIFE NOBLY SACRIFICED TILL THE DAY DAWNS |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Warwick War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 812, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, An original of C Company | |
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| 6 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 812, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 6 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 812, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Percy was a very young Englishman who came to Australia, with his parents, aged 11 in 1911.
Percy enlisted in Brisbane during February 1916 when he was not yet 16 years of age. He went to the front with the Pioneers during June 1916 and was one of the tunnellers who dug the galleries under Hill 60 at the Battle of Messines. He was badly wounded there and evacuated to England with gunshot wounds to the left arm and head.
Percy rejoined his unit in France during November 1917. He faced a court martial on 2 June 1918 for 'breaking into a shop in search of plunder' and was awarded 30 days Field Punishment No.2.
He was killed in action two months before the Armistice, and was buried in the Buire Communal Cemetery. During 1925, his remains were shifted to the Cerisy-Gailly French National Cemetery, during a concentration of smaller cemeteries.
He was the only son of Thomas and Margaret Ingrams, Warwick, Queensland.
Biography contributed by Margaret Plant
Percy, his brother Charles Hamley Ingrams 1901 - 1914 and his parents emigrated from England in 1911 on the ship Pararoa. The family in England never heard from them again.
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