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CHANNON Percy
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(Lcpl) Percival Allen Channon
Lance Corporal Percival Allen Channon 1319 a Clerk from Princes Street, Alberton, South Australia prior to enlistment on 25 November, His unit 10th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A46 Clan Macgillivray on 2 February 1915
| Regimental number | 1319 |
| Religion | Congregational |
| Occupation | Clerk |
| Address | Princes Street, Alberton, South Australia |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 21 |
| Next of kin | Father, J W Channon, Princes Street, Alberton, South Australia |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | 25-Nov-14 |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 10th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/27/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A46 Clan Macgillivray on 2 February 1915 |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Lance Corporal |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 50th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action 16 August 1916 |
| Place of death or wounding | Mouquet Farm, Pozieres, France |
| Age at death | 22.11 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France |
| Villers-Bretonneux is a village about 15 km east of Amiens. The Memorial stands on the high ground ('Hill 104') behind the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, which is about 2 km north of Villers-Bretonneux on the east side of the road to Fouilloy. | |
| The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is approached through the Military Cemetery, at the end of which is an open grass lawn which leads into a three-sided court. The two pavilions on the left and right are linked by the north and south walls to the back (east) wall, from which rises the focal point of the Memorial, a 105 foot tall tower, of fine ashlar. A staircase leads to an observation platform, 64 feet above the ground, from which further staircases lead to an observation room. This room contains a circular stone tablet with bronze pointers indicating the Somme villages whose names have become synonymous with battles of the Great War; other battle fields in France and Belgium in which Australians fought; and far beyond, Gallipoli and Canberra. | |
| On the three walls, which are faced with Portland stone, are the names of 10,885 Australians who were killed in France and who have no known grave. The 'blocking course' above them bears the names of the Australian Battle Honours. | |
| After the war an appeal in Australia raised £22,700, of which £12,500 came from Victorian school children, with the request that the majority of the funds be used to build a new school in Villers-Bretonneux. The boys' school opened in May 1927, and contains an inscription stating that the school was the gift of Victorian schoolchildren, twelve hundred of whose fathers are buried in the Villers-Bretonneux cemetery, with the names of many more recorded on the Memorial. Villers-Bretonneux is now twinned with Robinvale, Victoria, which has in its main square a memorial to the links between the two towns. | |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, | |
| Australian War Memorial | 150 |
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| cemetery records | Commemorated in Cheltenham Cemetery, South Australia. Parents: John and Elizabeth CHANNON, St. Vincent Street, Port Adelaide. Born at Alberton, South Australia |
| Family/military connections | Brothers: 20237 Driver Arnold James CHANNON, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, returned to Australia, 11 June 1919; 1485 Sergeant Stanley Murray CHANNON, 10th Bn, returned to Australia, 7 February 1919. |