David Cook HAY

HAY, David Cook

Service Number: 1567
Enlisted: 1 December 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd Infantry Battalion
Born: Glebe, New South Wales, Australia, 7 March 1897
Home Town: Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales
Schooling: Newcastle South Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Labourer on Newcastle Tramways
Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 6 August 1915, aged 18 years
Cemetery: Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC
Special Memorial, Row C, Grave 42 Headstone inscription reads: Their glory shall not be blotted out
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton Newcastle District Tramways Roll of Honor, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Junction Soldier's Memorial
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World War 1 Service

1 Dec 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1567, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
11 Feb 1915: Involvement Private, 1567, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Choon embarkation_ship_number: A49 public_note: ''
11 Feb 1915: Embarked Private, 1567, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Choon, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of John Clarke Hay of 'Gurnea', 15 Ravenshaw Street, Junction, Newcastle, NSW formerly of 'Crofton', Watkins Street, Mereweather, NSW

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

Previously served in the School Cadets and the Citizen Military Forces

Biography contributed by John Oakes

David Cooke HAY (Service Number 1567) was born in Glebe on 7th March 1897.  He joined the Tramways in Newcastle as a shop boy in July 1914. He was released from duty in November to enlist in the AIF in Sydney.  He had some years experience in school cadets and Militia.

He embarked from Australia in February 1915 aboard HMAT ‘Seang Choon’. He joined the 2nd Battalion at Gallipoli on 3rd May.  He was sent to a Field Ambulance with Influenza on 4th June but returned to the fighting on 7th June.  On 14th August he was reported missing. A military board later that month determined that he must have been killed in action between 6th and 9th August 1915. 

He was believed to have been buried at Lone Pine Cemetery, but his actual grave is unknown, and he is remembered with honour there.

- based on notes from the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

 

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