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Name
WILLIAM PERCIVAL SPARKES
Date and place of Enlistment
On the 20th August 1914
At Brisbane.
Rank
As A GUNNER in the 7th Battery, 3rd FIELD Artillery Brigade, 1st Division A.I.F.
Sailed
from Brisbane on 25th September 1914
in the H.T.S. RANGATIRA
Promotions
Promoted to BOMBARDIER at MENA Egypt 17th January 1915
Promoted to Corporal at ANZAC, Gallipoli on 20th October 1915
Promoted to Acting Sergeant at Anzac Gallipoli 1st November 1915
Promoted to (B.Q.M.S.) BATTERY QUARTER MASTER SERGEANT on the 19th March 1916 at TELE EL KEBIR Egypt.
Recommended to CADET SCHOOL for COMMISSION France 2nd December 1916.
AT LANDING at ANZAC 25th April 1915
WOUNDED
at Anzac Gallipoli in MAY 1915
A Turkish shell landed in our gun pit which was in the front trench lines (a thing almost unprecendented in the history of warfare) and on its explosion I was wounded with several pieces of shell and a dozen pieces of shrapnell.
AT GREEK HOSPITAL Alexandria till end of June 1915.
Back at ANZAC Gallipoli from end of June till the EVACUATION in December 1915.
TRANSFERRED
to 41st Battery, 4th Divisional Artillery in February 1916
ARRIVED in FRANCE June 1916
INVALIDED to AUSTRALIA
DISCHARGED 17th October 1917
HONORABLE MENTION in DESPATCHES
Vide FIRST Divisional Orders at ANZAC No 161, 13th July 1915
"Work done under fire on GUNS in the Trenches in May 1915"
Name appears in Gazette list No 133 under appointments Promotions &c by G.O.C. Australian I. FORCES 3rd January 1917 in connection with recommendation as a Cadet Oficer.