Harold Sefton HAYES

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Service Number:	273
Enlisted:	19 January 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	13th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Longwood, Victoria, Australia, 13 June 1889
Home Town:	Alexandria, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	Leongatha, Victoria, Australia, 27 July 1973, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremated on 30 July 1973
Memorials:	Euroa Telegraph Park

19 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 273, 13th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
12 May 1915:	Involvement Private, 273, 13th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: ''
12 May 1915:	Embarked Private, 273, 13th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Persic, Melbourne
4 Nov 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 273, 13th Light Horse Regiment, Gassed evacuated to England on 27 November 1917
15 May 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 273, 13th Light Horse Regiment, Discharged at the 3rd MIlitary District as medically unfit due to gassing. Had previously been Lance Corporal but reverted to Trooper at his own request

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Enlisted and served as Harold Hayes

Son of David Hayes and Mary Stewart Hayes nee Sefton of 'The Oaks', Alexandria, Victoria

Returnd to Australia on 23 March 1919 aboard HT Ceramic

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1920c Harold married Edith Mabel Chapman in Victoria.