RAUERT, Percival Louis
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 15 April 1915, Nhill, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, 1891 |
| Home Town: | Nhill, Hindmarsh, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Dimboola High School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Draper |
| Memorials: | Dimboola Memorial High School WWI Honour Roll, Gerang Residents of Gerang and District Great European War Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, Nhill, Victoria | |
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| 7 Mar 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne | |
| 7 Mar 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 6th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 23 May 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 6th Infantry Battalion, Joined the Battalion in the Field France from Reinforcement’s Alexandria Egypt | |
| 24 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 6th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières | |
| 8 Nov 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Admitted Appendicitis for treatment and convalescence | |
| 25 Mar 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 65th Infantry Battalion, Posted to Establishment of 6th Division 65th Battalion Wareham UK Promoted to Substantive Lieutenant on March in to unit | |
| 10 May 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 6th Infantry Battalion, Taken on Strength of Unit in the Field | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 6th Infantry Battalion, Broodseinde Ridge, Gunshot wounds thigh Evacuated to 20th General Hospital onward to 3rd General Hospital Wandsworth UK for treatment and convalescence | |
| 14 Oct 1917: | Honoured Military Cross, Broodseinde Ridge | |
| 1 Jun 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 6th Infantry Battalion, Taken on Strength of Unit Ex wounded UK | |
| 10 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 6th Infantry Battalion, The Battle of Amiens, Gunshot wounds left arm fractured Admitted to 3rd General Hospital Wandsworth UK For treatment and convalescence | |
| 25 Jan 1919: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 6th Infantry Battalion, Return to Unit in France Ex wounded UK | |
| 1 Nov 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 6th Infantry Battalion, RTA 3MD Melbourne Medically Unfit on HT Nestor To Reserve Officers List Appointment terminated February 1920 | |
| 28 Feb 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 6th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"...Lieutenant Percival Louis (Percy) Rauert, 6th Battalion, of Jeparit, Vic. A draper prior to enlistment, Rauert embarked as a second lieutenant with the 15th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. He was awarded the Military Cross (gazetted, London, 27 October 1917) for his actions on 20 September 1917 near Ypres. The award was 'for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He was in charge of a mopping-up party in an attack, and showed great courage and skilful leadership in clearing concrete emplacements of the enemy. When his company commander had been wounded he took command of the company and handled it with great skill and judgement'. He returned to Australia late in 1919 and was discharged on 28 February 1920. In May 1915 Percy Rauert had attended to the needs of his brother 1122 Private (Pte) Sydney Charles Rauert, who had become ill at Broadmeadows Camp and was admitted to Melbourne Hospital on 7 May 1915. Pte Sydney Rauert was returned to Broadmeadows Camp where he died of with measles, bronchial-pneumonia and heart failure on 15 May 1915, aged 22. His brother Percy Rauert was by his side when he died." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
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