DETMOLD, Percy George
| Service Number: | 108 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 September 1869 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Sussex, England, United Kingdom, 1935, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 108, Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 18 May 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 108, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 475 notes 4th QIB embarked 18 May 1900 aboard Manchester Port arriving Beira 14 Jun 1900. | |
| 20 Jan 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 108, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Invalided returned to Australia arriving Brisbane 16 Jan 1901, discharged approx 20 Jan 1901. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Percy George Detmold was born on 8 Sep 1869 at South Yarra, Victoria. It appears following his service in the South African (Boer) War he became a journey man. He married Ethel Keogh in Ontario, Canada in 1907. They had one son, also Percy George Detmold, born in Toronto, Canada on 7 Aug 1909.
Sometime later they relocated to Sussex, England where Percy died in 1935 and Ethel in 1947.Their only sone, Percy George, noted as from Oakville, Ontario, Canada enlisted in the Royal Air Force during WW2 and was killed in action 26 Apr 1942 in an operation over Germany.
Ethel had been previously married in Melbourne, Victoria in 1895 to a John McGee with whom she had 4 children, however, John passed away in 1903 shortly after moving the family to South Africa.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 481; Find A Grave memorials)
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