Percy Doria

Forenames

Percy AWMM

Surname

Doria AWMM

Also known as

Percival AWMM

Service number

WWI 22953 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1894 AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs R. Pope (friend), Wimbledon, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 27 May 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 22953 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Driver/Military AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 27 May 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 54 or HMNZT 55 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Rifleman AWMM 4th Reinforcements, 3rd Battalion, G Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Son of Birley Darlington Doria (died 1898) and Helen Muriel Doria (later Pope) of Wimbledon, New Zealand.

Three sons fell in WW1: Jack (23/1375), Percy (22953) and Birley (23/1375).

Helen nee McKENZIE, whose three cousins; Kenzie McLean, Alexander John McLean & John Murdoch McLean (AIF) also died serving their King & Commonwealth.

Birth name registered as Percival. AWMM

Death

16 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM

Memorial name

• Dannevirke War Memorial, The Domain, Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand AWMM
• St Michael's & All Angels, Porangahau, Hawkes Bay. 1914 - 1918. To the Glory of God and the honoured memory of the men from this parish who gave their lives in the Great War. This tablet has been erected by the parishioners and other friends. Bertie DORIA Jack DORIA Percy DORIA AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20998070
  Further Reference
• Ministry of Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Dannevirke War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/dannevirke-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Blog: (Glenn Reddiex). 100NZWW1Postcards - Dannevirke War Memorial.
  http://100nzww1postcards.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/dannevirke-war-memorial.html
  Further Reference
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs. Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Mach.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/20007/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/20007
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Scadden, J. (2018). Broken branches : New Zealand families who lost three or more children in the Great War.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  33: 32
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 1: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Information kindly provided by family
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.