WRAY, Percy Hugo
| Service Number: | 1467 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 December 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Blackheath, Kent, England, 1874 |
| Home Town: | Scone, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Painter |
| Died: | Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia, 6 January 1934, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) E NW. 40. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1467, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1467, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1467, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 27 Mar 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1467, 35th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit due to wounding Messines |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
89 years ago today, on Monday afternoon of the 8th January 1934, Private Percy Hugo Wray, 35th Battalion (Reg No-1467), painter from Scone, New South Wales and Horatio Street, Mudgee, N.S.W. and possibly 71 Gosford Road, Broadmeadow, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 58 or 60. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) E NW. 40.
Born at Blackheath, Kent, United Kingdom about 1874 to parents unknown, Percy enlisted on the 30th December 1915 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Admitted 11th Australian Field Ambulance - 9.2.1917 (frostbite of hands, chilblains - inflammation of small blood vessels on the skin caused due to repeated exposure to cold), 1.4.1917 (chilblains), to hospital 10.4.1917 (gastroenteritis - a condition characterised by irritation and inflammation of the stomach and intestines. This causes diarrhoea, vomiting and nausea).
Wounded in action - 7th or 9th June 1917 (GSW or SW left leg, Battle of Messines).
Percy on the list of wounded and sick Australian soldiers who enlisted from Newcastle & Hunter River districts that are returning home soon.
Percy was invalided home on the 24th September 1917 (medically unfit, tachycardia and hand tremors, shell shock), and was discharged on the 27th March 1918.
Mr. Wray’s name has been inscribed on the Scone District First World War Honour Roll and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Percy’s gravesite plaque has been proudly inscribed with the 35th Battalion, and I have placed poppies in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
I will be submitting an application to DVA asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque to be placed at the gravesite.
Percy served with the Steward's Department of the Royal Navy for four years before immigration to Australia.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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