Percy BROKENSHIRE

Badge Number: 75894, Sub Branch: Broken Hill, NSW
75894

BROKENSHIRE, Percy

Service Number: 776
Enlisted: 3 December 1914, 3rd Reinforcements - Oaklands / Warradale SA
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: 50th Infantry Battalion
Born: Moonta, Copper Coast - South Australia, Australia, date not yet discovered
Home Town: Moonta, Copper Coast, South Australia
Schooling: Moonta Public School
Occupation: Butcher
Died: War related, Adelaide, South Australia, 26 April 1941, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia
Section: LO, Road: BN, Site No: 8
Memorials: Moonta Corporation of The Town of Moonta Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

3 Dec 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 776, 9th Light Horse Regiment, 3rd Reinforcements - Oaklands / Warradale SA
8 Feb 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 776, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Pera embarkation_ship_number: A4 public_note: ''
20 May 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 776, 9th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Evacuated November 1915 with Enteric Fever - to UK Beaufort War Hospital Fishponds BRISTOL
11 Feb 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 776, 50th Infantry Battalion, German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line and Outpost Villages
17 Feb 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 50th Infantry Battalion
7 Jun 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 776, 50th Infantry Battalion, Battle of Messines
25 Jun 1917: Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 50th Infantry Battalion
30 Jul 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 776, 50th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres
27 Oct 1917: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 50th Infantry Battalion
27 Mar 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 776, 50th Infantry Battalion, Dernancourt/Ancre
24 Apr 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 776, 50th Infantry Battalion, Villers-Bretonneux
18 Jun 1918: Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 50th Infantry Battalion
8 Aug 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 776, 50th Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days"
21 Sep 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 776, 50th Infantry Battalion, 4th MD - TPE
Date unknown: Wounded 776, 9th Light Horse Regiment

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