Percival
Hugh
Rex
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Ancestors 
Son of George Woodcock Rex
and Selina Jane (Gracie) Rex
Brother of
William George Rex, Ada Isabel (Rex) Grove, Ernest Richmond Rex, Hilda Ruth Rex, Cyril Gracie Rex, Raymond David Richmond Rex, Myra Selina (Rex) Henry, Dudley Hobart Rex, Nita Gladys (Rex) Just and Oswald Vivian Rex
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 35
in Gallipoli, Gelibolu, Çanakkale, Turkey
Profile last modified
| Created 4 May 2018
This page has been accessed 140 times.
Biography
Percival Rex was Fatally Wounded in Action during The Great War.
Enlisted 27 Oct 1914, Reg No. 1114, 15th Battalion. His record says he died of wounds on 24 May 1915, on board HMT Galeka, at Lemnos. Buried on Lemnos.
Notice
Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Friday 11 June 1915. [1] REX. - Died of wounds at the Dardanelles, on May 31, 1915. Percival Hugh Rex, aged 35 years, fifth son of the late G. W. and S. J. Rex, of Avonleigh, Patrick-street, Hobart.
Sources
- Tasmania Vital Statistics - https://librariestas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names/search
- Birth - Tas BDM BC 1513/0880 and NAME_INDEXES:1095024
- NAA WW1 nominal Roll - https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8029134
- Link - https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZNP-W7P
Is Percival your ancestor? Please don't go away!
Login to collaborate or comment, or
contact
the profile manager, or
ask our community of genealogists a question.
Login to collaborate or comment, or contact
the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Percival by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Percival:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Percival by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Percival:
-
~0.78%
Neil Smith
:
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch GL2339882 [compare]
-
~0.39%
Stephanie Smith :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.39%
Julie (Grubb) Mason :
AncestryDNA
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Comments
Leave a message for others who see this profile.
There are no comments yet.
Login to post a comment.
Featured National Park champion connections: Percival is 19 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 19 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 20 degrees from George Catlin, 21 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 28 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 18 degrees from George Grinnell, 24 degrees from Anton Kröller, 21 degrees from Stephen Mather, 16 degrees from Kara McKean, 22 degrees from John Muir, 17 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 31 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Categories: Wounded in Action, Australia, World War I