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Percy Firth

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Percy AWMM
  • Surname
    Firth AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 2996 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    Greymouth, Grey District Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Pre 16 September 1915 AWMM 91 Newland Street, Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Mrs Minnie Firth, 22A Cottleville Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 16 September 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • 1914-1916 Egypt AWMM
    • 1914-1919 Western Front AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 2996 AWMM
  • Military service
    Served for 7 years in the 3rd Wellington Bn, Napier, New Zealand (time expired). AWMM
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    20 September 1917 AWMMKilled in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 14 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 19 March 1916.

    Admitted to 1st Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, 8 July 1916 (influenza); transferred to England, 20 July 1916, and admitted to Brook War Hospital, Woolwich (pyelitis, mild). Reported to No. 1 Command Depot from furlough, 12 September 1916.

    Proceeded overseas to France, 4 March 1917. transferred to 2nd Divisional Engineers, 14 March 1917.

    Killed in action, Belgium, 20 September 1917. Buried in an isolated grave, south of Westhoek Village, bottom of hill, 3 miles east of Ypres, Belgium.

    Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal AWMM
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Death

About death

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  • Death
    20 September 1917 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    No known grave AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM

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Sources

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    AIF Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra AWMM

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