Percy Herbert LINGFORD

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LINGFORD, Percy Herbert

Service Number:	5858
Enlisted:	16 May 1916, Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	24th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Yea, Victoria, 1894
Home Town:	St Kilda East, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	North Melbourne Christian Brothers College
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 5 October 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Wodonga War Memorial

World War 1 Service

16 May 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5858, Melbourne, Victoria
2 Oct 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5858, 24th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
2 Oct 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5858, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne
5 Oct 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 5858, 24th Infantry Battalion, Broodseinde Ridge, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5858 awm_unit: 24 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1917-10-05

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

"...5858 Sergeant Percy Herbert Lingford, 24th Battalion. A clerk of Yea, Victoria, he enlisted at Footscray, Victoria. He embarked on the HMAT Nestor on 2 October 1916 with the 16th Reinforcements. He was killed in action on 5 October 1917, aged 23, at Broodseinde Ridge, Belgium, and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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