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  • Marrickville
  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • “Taloombi”, Cattai Road, Pitt Town
  • Son of Frederick James Percival and Kathleen Rosina Carson (nee Ridding), of Pitt Town, Windsor, New South Wales; one sister, Dorothy and two brothers, Mavis and Eric
  • West Maitland Superior Public School
    Hawkesbury Agricultural College (near Sydney)
  • Orchardist
  • Nickname Eddie

Military service

  • 13 May 1916, Bathurst
  • 2140
  • Private
  • 54th Bn. Australian Infantry
  • Embarkation 19 August 1916, Sydney; to France 24 January 1917; dispatch rider

Death

  • 21 October, on a run from Broodseinde Ridge to the Supply Store at Westhoek Ridge.
  • Died of shrapnel wounds to neck, left arm and abdomen, in n°10 CCS
  • 22
  • XXV - G - 19

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