Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

06/06/1916

Date of Discharge

22/12/1919

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Hillston NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Metropolitan Board of Water & Sewerage, Sydney NSW (previously the Bachelor Quarters, Acton ACT)

Occupation

Draftsman

Next of Kin

Ada Pardey (wife), Manly NSW

Service Number

1807

Final Rank

Corporal

Final Unit

4 Light Trench Mortar Battery AIF

Pardey was a resident of the Bachelor Quarters in Acton and employed as a draftsman with the Department of Home Affairs in Canberra during 1913-1915 preparing descriptive diagrams and copying and tracing original plans. He married in Manly NSW in May 1916 shortly before enlisting, though he and his wife divorced in 1923. He left Australia in December 1916 and was promoted to Corporal while in camp in England with the 17th Light Trench Mortar Battery. Pardey joined the 4th Light Trench Mortar Battery in France in October 1917 but has hospitalised with bronchitis in January 1918 and evacuated to England. He returned to France in July 1918 but stayed in the depot at Le Havre. He accidentally injured his ankle in October 1918 and was transferred to hospital in Exeter. Pardey returned to Australia and was discharged in December 1919 in Sydney. He died in 1951 in Sydney.

Description - height 5 feet 5¾ inches, weight 116 pounds, chest 30-33 inches, fresh complexion, blue eyes, black hair, Church of England.

Ann Gugler, 'The Builders of Canberra 1909-1929', 1994
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
NAA RecordSearch - (A202) 1914/4381 Full names of Officers and Employees, Federal Territory Salaries Register
Queanbeyan Age - 27 June 1913, 26 September 1913
Sydney Morning Herald - 10 April 1923