Percy DORIA

Regimental number22953
OccupationDriver
Next of kinFriend, Mrs R Pope, Wimbledon, Hawke's Bay
Rank on embarkationRifleman
Unit nameNew Zealand Rifle Brigade, 4th Reinforcements to 3rd Battalion, G Company
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on 27 May 1916
Final rankLance Corporal
Final unitNo 1 Company, New Zealand Machine Gun Corps
FateDied of wounds 16 October 1917
Age at death from cemetery records23
Place of burialLonguenesse Souvenir Cemetery (Plot IV, Row E, Grave No 54), St Omer, France
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Helen Pope (formerly Doria), and the late B.D. Doria
Family/military connectionsBrothers: 28114 Pte Birley Reginald DORIA, New Zealand Infantry Reinforcements, died of disease, 30 December 1916; 23/1375 Pte Leonard Jack DORIA, 2nd Bn, Wellington Infantry Regiment, killed in action, 8 June 1917.
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNominal Roll Vol. 2: Roll 33, p. 32

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