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TEAGLE, Percy
| Service Number: | 3382 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 July 1917, Naracoorte, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 50th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kapunda, South Australia, 8 June 1899 |
| Home Town: | Kapunda, Light, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Natural causes, Adelaide, South Australia, 11 January 1967, aged 67 years |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National Australia Bank WW1 Honour Board, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Kapunda District WW1 Honour Roll, Naracoorte and District Town Hall Honour Board WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Jul 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3382, Naracoorte, South Australia | |
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| 7 Mar 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3382, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Ormonde embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 7 Mar 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3382, 43rd Infantry Battalion, SS Ormonde, Melbourne | |
| 13 Sep 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3382, 50th Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days" | |
| 13 Sep 1918: | Imprisoned "The Last Hundred Days" | |
| 7 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3382, 50th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Percy Davison Teagle was born in Adelaide, South Australia on the 8th of June 1899. He lived in the city of Kapunda with his mother Fanny Teagle and father Henry Albert Teagle. The Great War came whilst he was working as a Bank Clerk. He decided to enlist in the A.I.F. at the age of 18 and a half on the 30th of July in 1917. He was assigned to the 50th battalion as a 7th and 8th reinforcement. His Service Number was 3382, and he enlisted as a Private. He was of average height for the times at 5’11 or 180cm, with fair hair and blue eyes.
He embarked 8 months after his first enlistment on the 7th of March 1918 aboard the R.M.S. Ormonde. He embarked from Melbourne and made it to Port Suez on the 4th of April 1918. He was then transferred to Port Tewfik 26 days later, then on to Southampton, England, on the 15th of May 1918 where he officially started his duties.
He officially faced the battlefield on the 17th of August 1918. Just under a month later, Percy was wounded in action and hospitalized for a short time. Not long after, letters of concerns were written from his parents to the officers in charge stating they weren’t able to reach Percy. Later news reposted he was in fact taken as a prisoner of war, captured by German hands, on the 24th of October 1918.
His location was undetermined but after three months he was repatriated to England on the 7th of January 1919.
After almost two years of service, and just over a year overseas, Percy began his journey home through Khyber, before safely returning to Adelaide on the 22nd of May 1919. Although, paperwork officially discharging Percy was signed on the 7th of June 1919, due to a cessation of hostilities.
Percy returned to his home in Kapunda where he died of natural causes on the 11th of January 1967. He was 67 years old. He was cremated and buried with a grave site in his honour at Centennial Park. Memorials have been made to honour the sacrifices Percy took for our country and can be viewed at the Adelaide National Australia Bank WWI Honour Board, Ballarat Australian of Ex – Prisoners War Memorial, Kapunda District WWI Honour Roll and the Naracoorte and District Town Hall Honour Board WWI.
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