DRAGE, Percy William Chanter
Service Number: | Officer |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant Colonel |
Last Unit: | 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles |
Born: | Wandsworth, London, England, 1866 |
Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Soldier |
Died: | Killed In Action, Diamond Hill, South Africa, 12 June 1900 |
Cemetery: |
Diamond Hill Cemetery, Cullinan, South Africa |
Memorials: |
Boer War Service
12 Jun 1900: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant Colonel, Officer, 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Operations in Orange Free State and Transvaal, February to June, 1900. Actions at Poplar Grove, Dreifontein , Karee Siding, Vet River, Zand River, Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill. Killed at Diamond Hill, 12th June, 1900.
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Percy William Chanter DRAGE was born in Wandsworth, London, England in 1866
His parents were Binyoun John DRAGE & Lizzie KENTFIELD who married in England in 1864
He arrived in Sydney on 20th September, 1886 on the ship Potosi
He married Minnie Blanche HEATHCOTE in Paddington, Sydney in 1898
He was a Lieutenant with the 1st NSW Mounted Rifles
Percy was Killed in Action at Diamond Hill, Elands River, South Africa and was buried at the Rhenosterfontein Farm - his grave is now at the Diamond Hill Cemetery