GANNAWAY, Percy Alfred
| Service Number: | 3516 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Artillery Details |
| Born: | Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia, 23 April 1893 |
| Home Town: | Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 September 1957, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor, Big Hill State School No 1551 Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3516, Depot Battalion (AIF) | |
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| 29 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 3516, 21st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 3516, 21st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne | |
| 21 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3516, 5th Pioneer Battalion, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles on board MT Invernia | |
| 12 May 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3516, Artillery Details , embarked England for Melbourne on board HT Ruahine | |
| 8 Aug 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3516, Artillery Details |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Percy Alfred Gannaway (Service No:3516), with his older brother Herbert and nephews Victor and Percival, served in WWI. Private Gannaway enlisted in the AIF on 7 July 1915 with 16 Depot Battalion Bendigo, and was attached to 21st Battalion on 29 December 1915 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Suez on board HMAT A64 Demosthenes. Private Gannaway transferred to 5 Pioneer Battalion, and on 21 June 1916 embarked from Alexandria for Marseilles on board MT Invernia. Private Gannaway served on the Western Front, and was a Gunner attached to Artillery Details on 12 May 1918 when he embarked from England for Melbourne on board HT Ruahine. Discharged (Medically Unfit) on 8 August 1918, Private Gannaway's application for re-enlistment on 29 October 1918 was rejected.
Fred was born in Melbounre, Victoria in 1893, youngest of seventeen children of James Frank Gannaway (b1838 in Hampshire, England) and Emma Mary Parsons (b1838 in Devonshire, England). James and Emma married in 1857 in England - James was a Missionary Student and Congregational Minister, and in 1861 he and Mary were in India where James was a Missionary with the London Missionary Society. In 1881 the family immigrated, arriving in Melbourne on board the Superb. James and Mary lived in Melbourne, where James was a Congregational Minister, and in Nunawading, where James was a Farmer. In the early 1900s James and Mary (and some of their children) moved to New Zealand.
Fred lived in Bendigo with his older sister, and was working as a Labourer in 1915 when he enlisted in the Army. Following his discharge from the Army, in 1918 in Melbourne he married Hazel Elizabeth May Waterston (b1898 in Bendigo, Victoria). Fred and Hazel lived at Quarry Hill via Bendigo, where Fred was a Labourer, until 1920 when he was granted eighty acres at Stanhope via Rushworth under the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act. Fred and Hazel settled at Stanhope, where they raised their family and Fred was a Dairy Farmer. In the early 1930s the family moved to Melbourne, where Fred worked as a Labourer. He and Hazel divorced in the late 1930s - Hazel moved to Brisbane where she remarried. Fred died in 1957.
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