MARSHALL, Percy Charles
| Service Number: | 380 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 July 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Macquarie Plains, Tasmania, Australia, 13 July 1897 |
| Home Town: | Macquarie Plains, Derwent Valley, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bank clerk |
| Died: | 21 June 1948, aged 50 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Gretna (Saint Mary) Anglican Churchyard, Tasmania |
| Memorials: | Tasmania (Launceston) Garden of Remembrance |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 380, 4th Machine Gun Company | |
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| 19 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 380, 4th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 380, 4th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Commonwealth, Melbourne | |
| 17 Mar 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 22nd Machine Gun Company |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Percy was the youngest of three brothers who enlisted in the AIF. He was the only survivor, his brothers’ 1145 Pte. Vere Claude Marshall 26th Battalion AIF, died of Gallipoli wounds in England in 1915 and 1216 Sergeant John Herbert Marshall 26th Battalion AIF was killed in at action at Pozieres during 1916.
Percy received a Military Medal in 1917 with the 22nd Machine Gun Company, during the Battle of Menin Road in Belgium when, “though wounded in the shoulder by shrapnel he fired his gun in heavy shell fire as the Gun's crews were depleted by casualties. After the action when reporting to the aid post he was evacuated wounded immediately.”
Percy was gassed later in 1918 but returned to Australia in 1919. He later served in WW2 but passed away in 1948, at 51 years of age.