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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: | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, 7 October 1890 |
| Home Town: | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 1 June 1918, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coolamon St. Andrew's Anglican Church Honour Roll, 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
Family
Percy's was one of 12 children to Thomas Conrad Seckold and Sarah Agnes (Wild) Seckold from Wagga Wagga NSW
Submitted 24 July 2024 by Katrina Seckold
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
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