Patrick Grant MARGETTS

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MARGETTS, Patrick Grant

Service Number:	1186
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	23rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	War Service related, Manly, Australia, 4 September 2020, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Manly General Cemetery, NSW Portion Church of England, Plot Z.General, Grave No. 152.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

10 May 1915:	Involvement Private, 1186, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
10 May 1915:	Embarked Private, 1186, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne
4 Sep 1920:	Involvement Sergeant, 1186, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1186 awm_unit: 23 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1920-09-04

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 8 May 1915

Enlistment date 15 March 1915

Age at embarkation 27

Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on 10 May 1915

Returned to Australia 19 April 1919.

Sergeant Margetts is one of two Australian soldier casualties of the Great War honoured on the Ellon War Memorial in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

He was 32 and the son of James and Mary Ann Margetts of Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; husband of Mrs Emily Kelloway (formerly Margetts).

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