Percival Reginald (Percy) TIPTON

TIPTON, Percival Reginald

Service Number: 11930
Enlisted: 13 March 1916, Broadmeadows, Victoria
Last Rank: Not yet discovered
Last Unit: 4th Motor Transport Company
Born: South Yarra, Victoria, 1899
Home Town: South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling: South Yarra Primary School
Occupation: Commercial Traveller
Died: Caulfield, Victoria, 24 June 1964, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
Individual Rose, Garden F4, Bed 2, Rose 01 - Cremated 26 May 1964
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World War 1 Service

13 Mar 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Broadmeadows, Victoria
5 Jun 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, 11930, 4th Motor Transport Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: ''
5 Jun 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, 11930, 4th Motor Transport Company, HMAT Afric, Melbourne

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Biography

Address 1916  4 Malvern Road, Malvern, Victoria. Single and lived with parenst and siblings

War service  25th Army Service Corps Company [3rd Division Train]
Formed Australia March 1916 for 3rd Division Train. Departed Adelaide Afric 9 June 1916.
England, Western Front

Rank from Nominal Roll
Lance Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll
3rd Motor Transport Company
Fate Returned to Australia

Wife Dorothy Isabel Umhauer married 1927 He was employed by his father in the family business LAW and TIPTON, 3rd Floor, Myer's Buildings 114 Flinders Street. as warehouse manager and commercial traveller. His older brothers Robert Harold Tipton and Leslie Howard Tipton were also involved in the family business.

 

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