Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

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Percy NATION

Date of arrival overseas: 10 May 1901
Theatres of war: South Africa
Place of embarkation: on SS Gulf of Taranto from Wellington.
Surname: NATION
War memorial: Shannon
Place enlisted: Levin
Christian names: Percy
Place of arrival overseas: Durban, South Africa
Overseas memorial: Langverwacht, South Africa
School: Greytown 1888 - 1893; Shannon 1894 - 1895
Wars: Boer War
Service number: 4637
Religion: Wesleyan
Date enlisted: 3 April 1901
Final rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment or service: 7th Contingent 26 Coy
Embarkation date: 06 April 1901
User reference: 7.26
Date of birth: 19 August 1881
Date of death: 24 February 1902
Place of birth: Wellington
Awards: Queens South African Medal & 4 Clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902
Occupation: Storekeeper
Last known residence: Levin, New Zealand
Cause of death: Killed in action
Place of death: Vrede near Langverwacht, Sth Africa
Buried where: Vrede Garden of Remembrance, Transvaal, Sth Africa. 1
Spouses name: Unmarried
Fathers name: William Charles Nation
Fathers date of birth: 18 February 1840
Fathers place of birth: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Fathers occupation: Printer, Journalist, Newspaper Proprietor, Spiritualist, Tree Planter
Fathers date of death: 29 May 1930
Fathers place of death: Levin
Mothers name: Sarah Annie (née Webley)
Mothers place of birth: England
Mothers date of death: 1923
Parents date of marriage: 12 August 1864
Siblings: Mary Esther (b 1865), Ellen Elizabeth (Eliza, b 1868), Alice Webley (b 1869), Eva Lucy (b 1879), Bertha Eleanor (b 1872), Charles Cecil (b 1873), Annie Ethel (b 1877), Jessie Wigram (m Jones, d 1922)
Parents place of marriage: Nelson, New Zealand

Percy died about 2 months before his brother Charles married Grace Prouse.

This text from the document found at:
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/about/staff/publications/paul-nation/WCNations-memoirs.doc

W.C. Nation’s memoirs

[The original version of these memoirs are in a hand written school exercise book now in the possession of Peter Nation of 9 Duna Place, Palmerston North. They were written in 1921, see page 8 of this document.] [Items in square brackets were not in the original document.]

...

Percy was the youngest. He was quick of intellect, but excitable. At school he got on well, and could use his fists when set upon. When we came to Shannon from Greytown he came with us and took out the papers. When I got up entertainments in Greytown Percy was very good as a performer, and in Shannon he was the same. When the Boer war broke out he caught the war spirit and begged us to let him go. He feared he would not pass as a soldier, so he practised with dumb-bells; and so intent was he on going that he went to a blacksmith (Austice) and learned how to shoe horses for, said he "if I cannot get away in the ranks I will try to get as assistant shoer of horses". Then he bought a sax horn and learnt all the bugle calls, so that he could go as bugler if other means failed. He went into camp at Newtown Park, Duncan Anderson, his chum, going with him. They went all through the war together and both fell together at Bothasberg. [There is a memorial to him and Duncan Anderson in Shannon near the old railway station behind the large war memorial.]