Percy Roy Merrick

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First Name:

Percy

Middle Name:

Roy

Last Name:

Merrick

Mother's Name:

Ellen (nee Hughes)

Father's Name:

William Merrick

Date Enlisted:

Sunday, August 1, 1915

Rank at Enlistment:

Private

Rank at Discharge:

Private

Unit:

19th Battalion

Company:

Service:

Infantry

Awards:

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Date of Death:

Thursday, July 27, 1916

Place of Death:

Poziere France

Cause of Death:

Died of wounds received

Details:

Percy Merrick (Service No 3318) was born in Brooklyn, NSW, about 1895. At the time of enlistment he was a single 20 year old railway porter at Kiama and had served in 37th Infantry. He embarked on HMAT A29 Suevic with 7th Reinforcements, 19th Battalion on 20th December 1915.

After a short stop in Egypt he arrived in France with C Company, 19th Battalion on 25th March 1916. On 26th July, 1916 he was in a communications trench at Pozieres when a shell hit the dugout he was in and he was buried along with a number of others. Percy was rescued and taken for treatment but died of his wounds on 27th July, 1916.

He is buried in Sunken Road Cemetery at Contalmaisson, Special Memorial No 2.

Sources:

NAA: B2455, MERRICK PERCY ROY