Athol Eric Charles PERCY

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PERCY, Athol Eric Charles

Service Numbers:	1613, 1495
Enlisted:	24 November 1914, Liverpool
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	13th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia, 16 November 1897
Home Town:	Kempsey, Kempsey, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Motor mechanic
Died:	Shell Blast, France, 16 November 1916, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers II. E. 16.,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

24 Nov 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1613, 1st Infantry Battalion, Liverpool
11 Feb 1915:	Involvement Private, 1613, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Choon embarkation_ship_number: A49 public_note: ''
11 Feb 1915:	Embarked Private, 1613, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Choon, Sydney
7 May 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1613, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
6 Aug 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1613, 1st Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, Bomb wound to head.
13 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 53rd Infantry Battalion
16 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 5th Division Artillery
9 Jul 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 13th Field Artillery Brigade
16 Nov 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 1495, 13th Field Artillery Brigade

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Jim Grundy.

“I have seen death in every conceivable form — men with their heads blown; off, an arm or a leg the same, with their body scattered into fragments... truly modern warfare is terrible and brutal in the extreme.”

Pte. Athol Percy, 1st Bn. Australian Infantry.

Biography contributed by Michael Silver

Athol Eric Charles Percy was the eldest son of Florance Theodore and Eva Ethel Percy. He was born at Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia. He enlisted on 23rd November 1914 and lied about his age to do so.

He landed at Gallipoli and three months later he was wounded at Lone Pine and sent to Cairo to recover. He then re-joined his fellow soldiers in France where he was killed near a little village called Le Transloy when a shell exploded near to where he was, it was his 19th Birthday. He is buried in the Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers.

Courtesy Vicki Reedy, Grand niece.

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