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P Douglas

Commemorated at
Given name
P (Percy)
Family name
Douglas
Service number
537
Additional information
Gender
M
Rank (legacy)
Private
Unit at embarkation
3 Battalion
Service (legacy)
Army
Conflicts
World War 1
Campaign (legacy)
Gallipoli
Fate
KIA
Veteran Notes/Bio
  1. Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan as " Percy.KIA Dardanelles 1915(B)".
  2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number:  537  ;POB:  Woollahra,NSW :POE: Kensington,NSW ;NOK:Grandmother: Mrs Jesse McElroy.Malbon St ,Bungendore ( as an adopted son-Queanbeyan Age 2.07.15).     
  3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Private ;Unit: 3 Infantry Battalion (October 1914) ; Age: 22 ; Occupation: Framing Contractor (Queanbeyan Age 2.7.15 states that he was employed on the trams in Sydney) ;DOE:26.08.1914 ; Embarked:20.10.1914.Sydney.HMAT Euripides.A14.
  4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank:Private  ;Unit: 3 Battalion ;DOE:26.8.1914 : KIA 19.05.1915 .
  5. Buried 4th Battalion Parade Ground Cemetery, Gallipoli.
  6. See : OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis .2007.ISBN:978-1-74027-487-6
  7. Commemorated on the Australian War Memoprial Roll of Honour Panel 36.                                                                                                .                              
  8. Application to use Rising Sun Badge:On 03 November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on a proposed street sign for" Douglas" in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations.This request was aopproved on 21 December.  
  9. Name recommended to Developer by BWMC but not accepted by Palerang Council on the  basis tha tthe name "Douglas" has already been used in Carwoola.
  10. Last updated January 2017. 

 

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