DALY, Percy
| Service Numbers: | 2789, 2789A |
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| Enlisted: | 3 August 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 5th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Coy |
| Born: | Toogong, New South Wales, Australia, 11 April 1893 |
| Home Town: | Leichhardt, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fireman |
| Died: | 23 January 1962, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-209. 49. |
| Memorials: | Goulburn District Railway Employees Great War Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2789, 3rd Pioneer Battalion | |
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| 9 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2789, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 2789, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 27 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 2789A, 5th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Coy, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
63 years ago today, on the 24th January 1962, Sapper Percy Daly, 5th Australian Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company (Reg No- 2789A), fireman from 100 Hay Street, Leichhardt, New South Wales and Newcastle?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 68. ANGLICAN 3-209. 49.
Sandgate Cemetery database listed as DALEY.
Born at Toogong, New South Wales on the 11th April 1893 to Augustus, married school teacher from Merilla, via Goulburn, New South Wales, enlisted 11.6.1915, 3rd Battalion, Reg No-2501, died of pneumonia at sea en route to Egypt 2.8.1915, age 52, resting at Chatby Memorial, Alexandria, Egypt, and Edith S Daly, died?, from 12 Croydon Road, Croydon, N.S.W.; husband of Sarah Gladys Daly nee Wright, married 1914, Narrandera, N.S.W., died?, from Ferrier Street, Narrandera, New South Wales, Percy enlisted on the 3rd August 1916 with the 3rd Australian Pioneer Battalion at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 9th November 1916.
Admitted to hospital 26.3.1918 (laryngitis), 10.4.1919 (nephritis, mild).
Granted leave to England from 5.10.1918 to 22.10.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 16.6.1919.
Percy arrived home invalided on the 4th August 1919, being discharged on the 27th September 1919.
Mr. Daly’s name has been inscribed on the Goulburn District Railway Employees Great War Honour Roll and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Percy’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
6 brothers served 1st A.I.F.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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