Percy Cooper GILES

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GILES, Percy Cooper

Service Number:	3583
Enlisted:	9 November 1916, Enlisted at Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th Pioneer Battalion
Born:	Penton Vale, Yorketown, South Australia, 8 October 1895
Home Town:	Yorketown, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Kapunda, South Australia, 25 October 1968, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Kapunda Christ Church Anglican Cemetery, S. A.
Memorials:	Yorketown and District of Melville Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

9 Nov 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3583, 5th Pioneer Battalion, Enlisted at Adelaide, SA
10 Feb 1917:	Involvement Private, 3583, 8th Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: ''
10 Feb 1917:	Involvement Private, 3583, 6th Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: ''
10 Feb 1917:	Embarked Private, 3583, 6th Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Adelaide
10 Feb 1917:	Embarked Private, 3583, 8th Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Adelaide
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Private, 3583, 5th Pioneer Battalion
4 Mar 1920:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3583, 5th Pioneer Battalion, Discharged at the 4th Military District

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Leonard Hollway Giles and Mariane Giles nee Baley of Penton Vale, SA. Penton is a station out of Yorketown. SA

Next of kin given as Florence Helen Giles of Penton Vale, SA

Commenced return to Australia on 2 December 1919 aboard HT Shropshire disembarking on 18 January 1920

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

On 26 July 1919 Percy married Ruth Sederania Key in the Contrgational Church East Finchely, Barnet, England, Edgar Fletcher Allan officiated. Ruth died in Kapunda, SA in 1947

Husband of Audrey Marshall Giles of Kapunda, SA

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