Fords of Katandra

Victoria Australia

 Percy Claude LANGDON 
1890-1963
Married to Ruby Elizabeth DAY

5th child of Florence Henrietta FORD & Mathew Mark LANGDON
grandchild of Thomas FORD & Eliza Ann BATE
 

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PERCY & RUBY LANGDON
HAD 4 CHILDREN

Percy Claude 1912-1951
Laurence Eric 1920-1979
Valerie Ruby 1926-1926
Kenneth Verner 1928-1928
Living Female 1935-
NAME Percy Claude LANGDON 
FATHER Mathew Mark LANGDON
MOTHER Florence Henrietta LANGDON 
(nee FORD) 
BIRTH DATE 00 Month 1890
BIRTH PLACE Pine Lodge near Dookie,
Victoria, Australia
SIBLINGS         Joscelyn David 1885-1937
Norman Penruth 1886-1970
Arthur Joseph 1887-1889 
Florence Henrietta 1888-1889
Alma Juanita Kathleen 1891-1966
Vernon Harcourt 1892-1963
Zedina Estella 1893-1894
Florence Zedina Elizabeth 1895-1964
Venetia Irene 1896-1896
Eric Leslie 1899-1953
Lucy Olinda 1904-1983
EDUCATION Name of School
OCCUPATION Boiler Maker
Railway Enployee
MILITARY 

WW1-  SN 3777
Sapper  then Lance Corporal
5th Company Field Engineers

5 July 1915- 22 October 1919

SPOUSE Ruby Elizabeth DAY
MARRIAGE DATE 29 July 1911
MARRIAGE PLACE St Batholowmews Church
Burnley, Victoria
DEATH DATE 7 April 1963
DEATH PLACE Heidleberg, Victoria, Australia
BURIAL DATE 9 April 1963
BURIAL PLACE Fawkner Cemetery,
Section, C of E, M 3649,
Fawkner, Victoria, Australia.
CAUSE OF DEATH iPeripheral Gangrene
KNOWN RESIDENCES   Lennox Street
Richmond, Victoria
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Swan Street, Burnely
Victoria, Australia
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Wakefield Street 
Glenferrie, Victoria
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 War Service 

1915
5 July
Enlisted at Melbourne at age of
25 years 4 mths
1915
24 Nov
Embarked Australia HMAT Ceramic A40
1916
17 March

Embarked from Alexandria

1916
23 March

Disembarked in Marseilles France

 1916  
4 August
Wounded in action France
(gunshot wound in Shoulder)
 1917
5 February
24 Hours detention for unshaven
England
1918
30 March
Rejoined from leave Belguim
 1919
30 May
Disembarked for australia  
1919
17 June
1919
10 October
Awarded Military Medal
London Gazette

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette

 

Ceramic

 

 

 

HMAT Ceramic A40
1915
Melbourne

 

Family Memories

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WW1

recieved Military Medal  for work at Mont St. Quentin 30-31 August 1918

 

4 August 1916        Wounded in action France (Shoulder) 

5 February 1917

 

References:
Marriage Certificate No. # 119/5813