Historical records matching Pte. Percy Harvey
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About Pte. Percy Harvey
Percy Harvey was the son of son of Frederick John Harvey and Fanny Jane Harvey (Kenning). Along with his brother Bill, Trooper Percy Harvey, a labourer for Arthur Skitton, enlisted on 13 August 1914 and left from Wellington with the Canterbury Mounted Rifles on 16 October 1914. Unit: NZEF Canterbury Regiment, 2nd Bn. Service No. WWI 7/209. Arriving in Suez, Egypt on 3 December, Percy transferred to the 2nd Battalion of the Canterbury Infantry Regiment on 25 March 1915. Just three months later, on 26 June, he departed for the Dardanelles. On 16 August his military record states he was admitted to a casualty clearing station at "Anzac" and then into the 1st Australian Stationary Hospital in Egypt with diarrhoea, a common affliction for the men fighting at Gallipoli. He spent several months recuperating. In April 1916, along with his brothers Bill and Chas, Percy was transferred to France, moving through Ballieul, Boulogne and Camiers, where he spent time in hospital for another sickness. On 7 August 1916 he rejoined his unit at Étaples. It was during the Battle of the Somme on 21 September 1916 that he was shot in the thigh and his brother Fred injured in the same battle on the same day. Percy, now a private with the 2nd Battalion of the Canterbury Infantry Regiment, was admitted to the No.1 Canadian General Hospital at Étaples on 26 September but died in hospital two days later, on 28 September 1916. He was 22 years old.
Frederick and Fanny Harvey lost four of their sons to World War I. Charles Harvey (23/1661), Percy Harvey (7/209) and Frederick Harvey (6/3342). The other brother, William Harvey (6/254), returned to New Zealand and died of wounds within a year.
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