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SECKOLD, Percy
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 4596 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 July 1915, Bendigo, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 1885 |
| Home Town: | Fitzroy, Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Publican |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Mouquet Farm, France, 16 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 26 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4596, 6th Infantry Battalion, Bendigo, Vic. | |
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| 28 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 4596, 6th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 28 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 4596, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne | |
| 16 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4596, 6th Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm |
Personal Stories
Percy Seckold
Percy was a descendant of Frederick Sickolt and Anna Lembach they came to Australia in 1838 to plant vines for Macarthur and escape religious persecution, he was Lutheran and she Catholic. They had 9 children and after a while the name was anglicised to Seckold. I am also a descendant.
Submitted 25 April 2017 by Beverly Redshaw
Biography contributed by Robert Wight
Pte Percy Seckold was apparently a "well known Bendigo boxer" prior to enlisting.
Source: The Bendigonian