HAY, John Cooper
| Service Number: | 3193 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 49th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 30 September 1898 |
| Home Town: | Rockhampton, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Leichhardt Ward State School, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Dentist |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 13 October 1917, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Ypres Reservoir Cemetery Plot I, Row H, Grave No. 23. SLEEP ON DEAR YOUR TASK IS O'ER WE'LL MEET YOU ON THE GOLDEN SHORE |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gracemere Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 3193, 49th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
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| 23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 3193, 49th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
John Cooper Hay died in Belgium two weeks after his nineteenth birthday. He was the son of John and Mary Ann Hay, of Rockhampton, Queensland.
His older brother, who had transferred to the same unit, 11330 Pte. Charles William Hay 49th Battalion, was awarded a Military Medal for bravery in Belgium during September 1917.
John only joined the 49th Battalion at the front during July 1917. He was mortally wounded three months later during the fighting near Passchendaele, Belgium. He suffered shell and shrapnel wounds to his thigh on 11 October 1917 and died two days later in the 13th Australian Field Ambulance.
A son in law wrote to the AIF in 1918 asking that his personal effects not be sent to his mother, Mary Ann Hay, because she was in such ill health and delicate condition that the shock of receiving her son’s belongings might prove to be fatal.
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