Percy MAWSON

Regimental number2489
Place of birthBurnie, Tasmania
SchoolBurnie Grammar School, Tasmania
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationClerk
AddressBurnie, Tasmania
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation22
Next of kinBrother, R Mawson, Burnie, Tasmania
Enlistment date15 July 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name12th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/29/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A61 Kanowna on 24 June 1915
Rank from Nominal RollLance Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll12th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 11 August 1918
Place of death or woundingCachy, France in 1918
Age at death25
Age at death from cemetery records25
Place of burialAdelaide Cemetery (Plot III, Row I, Grave No. II), Villers-Bretonneux, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
66
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Son of Arthur MAWSON. Native of Burnie, Tasmania