Percy Victor HOPE

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Service Number:	6995
Enlisted:	2 October 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	8th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Brighton, Victoria, Australia, 1893
Home Town:	Brighton, Bayside, Victoria
Schooling:	Brighton State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Market gardener
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 September 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

2 Oct 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6995, 8th Infantry Battalion
23 Nov 1916:	Involvement Private, 6995, 8th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
23 Nov 1916:	Embarked Private, 6995, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne

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His younger brother, 6520 Cpl. Arthur William Hope, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, died of wounds 21 November 1916, aged 20.

They were the sons of William and Katherine Hope, of Brighton, Victoria.