CURTIS, Percy Leonard
| Service Number: | 62536 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 July 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 8 April 1900 |
| Home Town: | Torrensville, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Literary Cadet |
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World War 1 Service
| 31 Jul 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 62536, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements | |
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| 22 Oct 1918: | Involvement Private, 62536, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Boonah embarkation_ship_number: A36 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Oct 1918: | Embarked Private, 62536, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, HMAT Boonah, Adelaide | |
| 20 Dec 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 62536, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, HMAT Boonah A36: Troopship recalled | |
| 23 Jan 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 62536, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Percy was the youngest of two children of Aamuel Curtis (born 1875 in Sydney, NSW) and Bessie Augusta Cooper (born 1872 in Woolahra, Sydney, NSW). Samuel, a Merchant, and Bessie married in Sydney in 1895, where their first child was born. By1900 they were living in Brisbane, QLD and following Samuel's death, Bessie and the children moved to South Australia.
Percy was a Literary Cadet in Torrensville, Adealide when he enlisted in the AIF (with his mother's permission as he was just 18 years of age). Percy was a Private (Service No: 62536) with 1 to 6 (SA) Reinforcements and was Discharged in January 1919.
Percy settled in Sydney, NSW where he was an author (1926: Film History in the Making) and Film Producer (1927: Sinking the Inca). In 1931 he married Ivy Golandapatrina (Yolanda Petrina) Murray (nee Nestdale, born in Broken Hill, NSW in 1898). Percy and Ivy settled in Darlinghurst in Sydney, NSW where Percy was a Publicity Manager. Ivy died in 1938, and in 1943 Percy was living in Pymble, NSW where he worked as a Publicity Director. From 1947 to 1948 Percy was in the USA - New York and California - as Advertising Manager with RKO Pictures, and in 1949 he was in London working as a Publicity Director.
Percy applied for an Army Pension in 1967, and appears to have died on 11 June 1971 from which date his pension was ceased.