HYDE, Harold Clement
| Service Number: | 4034 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 September 1915, Enlisted at Holdsworthy (now Holsworthy) |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bombala, New South Wales, Australia, 1 March 1894 |
| Home Town: | Bankstown, Bankstown, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Canvas (Tarpaulin) Worker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 22 July 1916, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket Men of the Railways & Tramways Store Branch Roll of Valour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4034, 1st Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Holdsworthy (now Holsworthy) | |
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| 11 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 4034, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 11 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 4034, 1st Infantry Battalion, RMS Mooltan, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Harold Clement HYDE (Service Number 4034) was born on 1st March 1894 at Bombala. He commenced working for the NSW Government Railways at Eveleigh on 1st July 1913 in the Stores Branch as a sheet dresser. Six months later he became an apprentice tarpaulin repairer.
He enlisted at Holdsworthy on 23rd September 1915. He claimed his ‘trade or calling’ as ‘Canvas Worker’, an apprenticeship of three years with the NSW Government Railways and four years’ service in the Militia. Being unmarried, he gave his father who was living at Bankstown as his next of kin.
He was allocated to the 12th Reinforcements to the 1st Australian Infantry Battalion. He left Australia from Sydney aboard RMS ‘Mooltan’ on 11th December 1915. On 14th February 1916 he was taken on the strength of his Battalion at Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt. A month later he embarked at Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Forces in France, passing through Marseilles on 28h March 1916.
Hyde was killed in action on 23rd July 1916 at Pozières. He was hit in the head with shrapnel. He was buried in a shellhole on the battlefield at map reference 57.D.SE.X4.
George Barnett, (3891) reported:
‘On or about 25th July 1916 at Pozières H C Hyde was killed. His brother told me he had found the body and got his effects. When last I heard of the brother he was at Aldershot acting as servant to his Company’s officer, Capt. McKenzie.’
The gravesite was never located and thus Hyde has no known grave, and he is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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