GAVEGAN, Percy Carlyle
| Service Number: | 2361 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 26th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Gayndah, Queensland, Australia, 29 January 1894 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer's Assistant |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 23 March 1951, aged 57 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2361, 26th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 5 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 2361, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 2361, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Brisbane | |
| 16 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2361 | |
| 14 Apr 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 2361, 12th Infantry Battalion, GSW - chest | |
| 25 Aug 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2361, 26th Infantry Battalion, On board HMAT Benalla | |
| 24 Nov 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2361 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Percy Carlyle Gavegan was the 6th of 13 children of Frances Joseph Gavegan and Alice Maude Kay. Brothers Val de Lorne Gavegan, Arthur Milton Gavegan, John Cyril Gavegan also served in the Australian Defence Forces.
Percy was an Assistant Grocer living at Eagle Junction in Brisbane, QLD when he enlsited in the AIF in 1915. Following his Discharge in 1917, Percy returned to Brisbane, QLD where he married Millicent Akice Sherwood in 1919. Percy worked as a Shop Assistant and Tramways Motorman in Brisbane QLD. Following the death of wife Millicent in 1940, Percy remarried Dorothy Eileen Marles (nee Fitzgerald) and continued living on Brisbane QLD and working as a Tramways Motorman until his death in 1951
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