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Conlan Percival Thomas

Percival Thomas CONLAN

Regimental number 942

Place of birth    Richmond, Tasmania

Religion    Roman Catholic

Occupation  Confectioner

Address     Gordonvale, via Cairns, Queensland

Marital status    Single

Age at embarkation      24

Next of kin Sister, Miss G Conlan, 243 Harrington Street, Hobart,Tasmania

Enlistment date   21 August 1914

Rank on enlistment      Private

Unit name   9th Battalion, H Company

AWM Embarkation Roll number   23/26/1

Embarkation details     Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board

Transport A5 Omrah on 24 September 1914

Rank from Nominal Roll  Lance Corporal

Unit from Nominal Roll  9th Battalion

Other details from Roll of Honour Circular      Enlisted 21 August, 1914.

Lance Corporal 4 April 1915

Fate  Killed in Action 25 April 1915

Place of death or wounding    Gallipoli, Turkey

Date of death     25 April 1915

Age at death      25

Place of burial   No known grave

Commemoration details   The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 31), Gallipoli, Turkey

The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the

main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of

the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the

principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering

pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed

from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey. 

The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who

have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were

buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New

Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south

and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a

long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are

arranged by unit and rank. 

The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels

which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most

cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the

majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here. 

Panel number, Roll of Honour,

  Australian War Memorial     55

Other details    

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli 

Thank you to Lyn Carruthers for the above information

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