Percy Albert DAVIDSON

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DAVIDSON, Percy Albert

Service Number:	1102
Enlisted:	19 July 1915, Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	29th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 1892
Home Town:	Richmond (V), Yarra, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Driver
Died:	GSW Abdomen, Haubourdin, France, 20 July 1916
Cemetery:	Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez Plot XVI, Row C. Grave No. 1.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

19 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1102, Depot Battalion , Melbourne, Victoria
10 Nov 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1102, 29th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne
10 Nov 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1102, 29th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
16 Jun 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1102, 29th Infantry Battalion, Embarked Alexandria for B.E.F per H.M.T. "Tunisian"
23 Jun 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1102, 29th Infantry Battalion, Disembarked Marseilles, France
19 Jul 1916:	Imprisoned Fromelles (Fleurbaix)
19 Jul 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1102, 29th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), GSW to abdomen
20 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1102, 29th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), Died of wounds at Haubourdin, France whilst Prisoner of War

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Biography contributed by Robert Wight

Originally posted missing, 19/20 July 1916.

Unofficially reported as a Prisoner of War in Germany by Sergeant O.S. Cole (letter dated 27 July 1916).

Officially reported, 29 October 1916, as 'Died of Wounds whilst Prisoner of War, 20 July 1916 (gunshot wound abdomen)' and buried at Haubourdin Cemetery.

During clean-up operations after the war, authorities moved all British soldiers' remains from the Haubordin Communal Cemetery German Extension to the Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery. Pte Davidson was one of those soldiers.

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