Percy Charles SPALL

SPALL, Percy Charles

    Service Number: 2882
    Enlisted: 7 November 1916
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 49th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 24 June 1899
    Home Town: Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
    Schooling: Fortitude Valley State School, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Occupation: Carter
    Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 7 June 1917, aged 17 years
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)
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    World War 1 Service

    7 Nov 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2882, 41st Infantry Battalion
    23 Dec 1916: Involvement Private, 2882, 41st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: ''
    23 Dec 1916: Embarked Private, 2882, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney
    7 Jun 1917: Involvement Private, 2882, 49th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2882 awm_unit: 49th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-06-07

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    Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

    Killed in action just short of his 18th birthday. His older 2995 Private Alexander George Spall age 28 also of the 49th Battalion was killed by a shell on the same day during the Battle of Messines. Neither has a known grave. The sons of William George and Adelaide Louisa Spall, of 228 Bowen Terrace, New Farm, Brisbane Queensland.

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