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SECKOLD, Percival Frederick
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 1735 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 55th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 1 June 1918, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, France Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, Daours, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Wagga Wagga Cenotaph, Wagga Wagga Victory Memorial Arch |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 14 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 1735, 55th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
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| 14 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 1735, 55th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney |
Personal Stories
Percival Frederick Seckold
Percival was a descendant of Frederick Sickolt one of the 6 German families who came to grow vines for Macarthur in 1838. They left Germany to escape religious persecution Frederick was Lutheran Anna Lembach was Catholic. They had 9 children and the name was anglicised to Seckold. The family is on the Welcome Wall at the Maritime Museum Sydney.
Submitted 25 April 2017 by Beverly Redshaw