MCIVOR, Percy
| Service Number: | 749 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 June 1916, Bendigo, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 38th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tragowel, Victoria, Australia, 26 September 1894 |
| Home Town: | Tragowel, Gannawarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Tragowel State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Echuca, Victoria, Australia, 6 October 1995, aged 101 years |
| Cemetery: |
Echuca Cemetery, Victoria, Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 749, 38th Infantry Battalion, Bendigo, Vic. | |
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| 20 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 749, 38th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 749, 38th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Melbourne | |
| 6 Mar 1917: | Honoured Military Medal, At ARMENTIERES on the night 26th/27th February, 1917, on the occasion of a raid by a Composite Battalion of his Brigade on the enemy trenches, he acted as one of the leading scouts in the first party of his Company. In approaching the enemy's front line all the members of his party but himself were wounded, and he himself was bombed by the enemy. He jumped into the enemy trench, shot down a German bomber, and lead his Company in. He subsequently showed great courage and devotion to duty during the operation. | |
| 20 May 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 749, 38th Infantry Battalion, The Outpost Villages - German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line, GSW to left forearm. Evacuated to UK. Never rejoined unit. | |
| 16 Nov 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 749, 38th Infantry Battalion, RTA 27 July 1917 and discharged as MU (wounds). |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Pam Keown
Percy was interviewed by AWM just before his 100th birthday. Asked why he enlisted he replied that some of the other local boys were going so thought he might as well join them. Percy was a hard working farmer on his Soldier Settlement property at Macorna, a gentle man, father of seven daughters and one son. In his youth he played football and cricket. Cricket was his great love and he was over 60 before he retired from the game. He took 10 for 36 at one match. His motto for life was that we all needed to have at least one good laugh each day....sometimes that was at himself. Percy died aged 101.
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