Name
Percy Thomas Ingrams
1900
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/09/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
812
Australian Pioneers
3rd
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CERISY-GAILLY FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
I. D. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
A YOUNG LIFE NOBLY SACRIFICED TILL THE DAY DAWNS
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Percy Thomas Ingrams was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in 1900, son of Thomas Ingrams a, Garden Nurseryman and Margaretta/Margaret Ingrams (nee Ferguson). The eldest of two children.
1901 Census records Percy aged 1, living with his parents at 102 High Street, Cheshunt, Herts.
1911 Census, Percy (10), Brother Charles (9) and his parents, are now living at The Lodge, Wilsonhurst, Fletching, Sussex. Where his father is a Gardener.
In September 1911, Percy, brother Charles and his parents, emigrated, sailing from the Port of London on the 19th September 1911 for Brisbane, Australia.
His brother Charles died in 1914 in Brisbane, Australia aged 12.
Wartime Service
Percy enlisted at Brisbane on the 28th February 1916, giving his age as 18 years & 1 month, and his occupation as a Motor Mechanic. Posted to the 3rd Pioneer Battalion, AIF, with the service number 812.
On completion of his training, he embarked at Melbourne aboard H.M.A.T. “Wandilla” for England on the 6th June 1916, with a short stopover in Cape Town, South Africa, arriving at Plymouth, on the 26th July 1916.
On 24th November 1916, Percy and his Battalion embarked at Southampton, sailing for France, where he was wounded on the 10th June 1917, receiving a Gun Shot Wound (GSW) to his arm, head and chest. He was transferred to England from Calais, France, on the 16th June 1917 aboard H.M.H.S. “Antwerpen” and taken to the County of Middlesex Hospital, Napsbury, Herts, for treatment, later transferred to the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Dartford.
On his recovery he returned to France, embarking at Southampton on the 12th September 1917, he re-joined his Unit in the field on the 12th October 1917, he was Killed in Action on the 6th September 1918.
Additional Information
The family lived initially in Drake Street, Hill End, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, then moved to Warwick, Queensland, Australia.
His Headstone inscription “A YOUNG LIFE NOBLY SACRIFICED TILL THE DAY DAWNS” was requested by Mr. T. Ingrams, Locke Street, Warwick, Queensland.
His service record is available on the National Archives of Australia database. www.naa.awww.naa.au
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
