HANNAY, John Henry Fitzpatrick
| Service Number: | 5605 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 April 1916, Blackboy Hill |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia, 23 July 1884 |
| Home Town: | Tenterfield, Tenterfield Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Dollar Academy, Scotland. |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith |
| Died: | Natural causes, Wembley, Western Australia, Australia, 1 January 1973, aged 88 years |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Crematorium Rose Garden 9N 0021 |
| Memorials: | Boyup Brook Walk of Remembrance |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5605, Blackboy Hill | |
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| 26 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 5605, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Surada embarkation_ship_number: A52 public_note: '' | |
| 26 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 5605, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Surada, Fremantle | |
| 3 May 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5605, 28th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (Second), Shrapnel wounds head and groin | |
| 24 Nov 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5605, 28th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit - defective eye sight |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Son of Peter and Elizabeth Turner Hannay, of Willowbank, Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia.
tHE FOLLOWING MAY BE THIS MAN:
John Henry Hannay
BIRTH-23 Jul 1884
New South Wales, Australia
DEATH-1 Jan 1973 (aged 88)
Western Australia, Australia
BURIAL
Karrakatta Cemetery and Crematorium
Karrakatta, Nedlands City, Western Australia, Australia
Biography contributed by Michael Silver
John Henry Fitzpatrick Hannay was born in Tenterfield, New South Wales in 1884 and at an early age he, together with his twin brothers Peter and Charles, was sent back to Scotland to be brought up by his grandparents, John and Eliza Hannay of Banff. The boys were educated at Dollar Acadamy, Dollar, near Stirling, Scotland.
Young Hannay was an outstanding athlete. At the age of 17 he won the Scottish Schoolboys 440 yards and in the same year was runner up in the Glasgow International 100yards. He also toured Germany with the All-England Schoolboys rugby team.
On leaving the Academy he returned to Australia and was given 10 pounds to make something of his life. He left NSW and went to the Western Australian goldfields prospecting, something he returned to later in life.
He took up contract fencing and ended up in Boyup Brook as co-owner of a blacksmith and farriers business. It was from here that he enlisted in the A.I.F. in 1916. Prior to embarking for overseas he married Alice May Treloar at Bridgetown, Western Australia on 10 May 1916. They were to have five children, with their three sons serving during World War II.
After being severely wounded at Bullecourt he was repatriated to Australia in September 1917. His war injuries left him with a huge hole on the inside of his thigh and pieces of shrapnel lodged in his back.
Upon his return he was joined by his brother, Charlie, in a farrier business at Donnybrook. He then bought a farm on the Southwest Highway 1.5km south of Newlands and later, in 1932, he acquired a farm south of Coolup.
His wife died in 1953 and later he moved to Kalgoorlie, resuming his interests in prospecting. John Henry Fitzpatrick Hannay died at Wembley Downs, Perth in 1973, aged 88 years.
Source: https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/o/s/b/Ian-F-Osborne/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0346.html
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