FINCK, Percy Eugene Frank
| Service Number: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 29th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | 1963, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Portland South Cemetery, Victoria, Australia interred 2 Oct 1963 Plot BAPT-B819 |
| Memorials: | Bolwarra Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 2023, 29th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 2023, 29th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Melbourne |
Help us honour Percy Eugene Frank Finck's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.
Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
“Australians” “A.N.Z.A.C.”
“P. E. Finck 3 Australian [Mining] Company” Gunner. 47th Battery.
FINCK Percy Eugene Frank : Service Number 2023 : Place Of Birth: Jerang Jerung VIC : Place Of Enlistment: Melbourne VIC : 20 years 2 months : Farmer : Next Of Kin: (Father) Finck Mr E H. Admitted to General Hospital, Colchester 5.12.16; General Military Hospital, Colchester 5.12.16 – 10.2.17 + 26.2.17 – 13.3.17. … with Appendicitis. [Enlisted: Returned to Australia 20.6.19.]. Father – Heywood, near Portland, Victoria.
N.B. Percy’s brother Christian John Theodore was wounded at Bancourt in France – “wounded in the head by shell fragments”. He died from wounds on 25 March/6 April 1917, in France. Buried in ACHIET-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, plot IV. Z. 4.