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S23774
GILES, Percy Cooper
Service Number: | 3583 |
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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 | |
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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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Add my storyBiography 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