Percival John OWEN

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Service Number:	4276
Enlisted:	10 July 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	14th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 21 August 1897
Home Town:	Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Ironworker
Died:	Warragul, Victoria, Australia, 28 August 1955, aged 58 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Warragul Cemetery, Victoria, Australia Presbyterian, Row O, Grave 593. Commemorated in the Ballarat Avenue of Honour with a tree, Populus Simonii, and a plaque
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

10 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4276, 14th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
29 Dec 1915:	Involvement Private, 4276, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: ''
29 Dec 1915:	Embarked Private, 4276, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne
11 Apr 1917:	Imprisoned Captured at Reincourt and interned at Dulmen, Germany
4 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4276, 14th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit due effort syndrome

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Son of Thomas Owen and Harriet Owen nee Murray of Pilgrim Street, Footscray, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 3 March 1919 aboard HT Nevasa disembarking on 25 April 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1927c John married Emily Matilda Budick