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Percy Croft TEMPLAR

Regimental number1078
Place of birthSulphur Creek, Tasmania
SchoolSulphur Creek State School, Tasmania
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationFarm hand
AddressSulphur Creek
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation19
Next of kinFather, Henry Templar, Sulphur Creek
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date6 March 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name3rd Light Horse Regiment, 6th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number10/8/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A62 Wandilla on 17 June 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll1st Field Artillery Brigade
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularServed in Palestine, Egypt, Gallipoli (for three months before the December evacuation), France and Belgium. Wounded while fitting up a gun at Ypres, Belgium, August 1917; returned to the line in October, was wounded again (15 October) and died the same day.
FateDied of wounds 15 October 1917
Place of death or woundingYpres, Belgium
Age at death22
Age at death from cemetery records22
Place of burialLijssenthoek Military Cemetery (Plot XXI, Row H, Grave No. 12), Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
11
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Henry and Edith Crott TEMPLAR. Native of Sulphur Creek, North West Coast, Tasmania
Family/military connectionsBrother: 7350 Richard TEMPLAR, 6th Bn, returned to Australia; Cousins: Lt W C CROFT MM MC; Sergeant W C LEAROYD; Sergean E R LEAROYD; Pte Roy TEMPLAR; Gunner P C CROFT; George TUCKER

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