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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Marrickville
• Land Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Last residence “Taloombi”, Cattai Road, Pitt Town
• Family 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
• Education West Maitland Superior Public School
  Hawkesbury Agricultural College (near Sydney)
• Profession Orchardist
• Extra info Nickname Eddie

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 13 May 1916, Bathurst
• Service number 2140
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 54th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Other data related to military career Embarkation 19 August 1916, Sydney; to France 24 January 1917; dispatch rider

Death

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

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