Mark HAYES MC

HAYES, Mark

Service Number: 1090
Enlisted: 15 May 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 17th Infantry Battalion
Born: Tomingly, New South Wales, Australia, October 1892
Home Town: Tingha, Guyra, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Miner
Died: Burwood, New South Wales, Australia, 12 February 1956, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW
ANGLICAN 1-71. 9.
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World War 1 Service

15 May 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1090, 19th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
25 Jun 1915: Involvement Private, 1090, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
25 Jun 1915: Embarked Private, 1090, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
12 Apr 1916: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 19th Infantry Battalion
31 Jul 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 1090, 19th Infantry Battalion
6 Sep 1916: Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 19th Infantry Battalion, In the field
16 Jul 1917: Promoted AIF WW1, Company Sergeant Major, 19th Infantry Battalion, In France
29 Sep 1917: Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 19th Infantry Battalion
1 Jan 1918: Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 19th Infantry Battalion
8 Apr 1918: Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 19th Infantry Battalion, Second occasion, Gassed
23 Jul 1918: Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 19th Infantry Battalion, Third occasion. Gassed. Invalided to England on 4 August 1918
3 Oct 1918: Honoured Military Cross, During the attack on the Beaurevoir Line where he and other were 'mopping up'. At one time he left the group single handedly charging a machine post resulting in the capture of 3 machine guns and taking fourteen prisoners London Gazette on 4 October 1919, page 12372, position 8 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 June 1919, page 1011, position 39
10 Oct 1918: Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 17th Infantry Battalion, From 19th Battalion
9 Jul 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 17th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

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

Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of John Hayes and Elizabeth Hayes of Rouse Street, Tingha, NSW formerly of Tomingley, NSW. Brother of Harold Hayes who was killed in action on 10 August 1915 while serving with the 13th Battalion and was buried in the New Zealand No. 2 Outpost Cemetery, Gallipoli. Name appears on Special Memorial No. 9 

Returned to Australia aboard HT Karoa disembarking on 8 May 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Sydney

During 1921c Mark married Blanche Clayton in East Maitland, NSW

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
 
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

68 years ago today, on the 14th February 1956, Lieutenant Mark Hayes (M.C.), 17th Battalion, (Reg No-1090), miner from Caledonian Hotel, Tingha, New South Wales and 18 Fleming Street, Islington, N.S.W. (1924) and 282 Newcastle Road, North Lambton, N.S.W. (1954) and 4 or 42 Hartley or Hartly Street, Lambton, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 63. ANGLICAN 1-71. 9.

Born at Tomingley, New South Wales October 1892? to John, died 17.4.1903, age 58, Tingha, N.S.W., buried Tingha Cemetery?  and Elizabeth Hayes, died 10.9.1923, age 71 of Moontown, Rouse Street, East Maitland, New South Wales, formerly of Tomingley, N.S.W. (death certificate states Jack and Mary Jane Hayes); husband of Blanche Hayes nee Clayton (married 1921, East Maitland, N.S.W., died 27.7.1946, Wallsend Hospital, N.S.W., age 52, mother of 8), Mark enlisted on the 13th May 1915 with the 19th Battalion at Sydney, N.S.W.

Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT Ceramic on the 25th June 1915.

Admitted to hospital 1.10.1915 (influenza & rheumatic fever), 11.11.1915 (dysentery), 2.12.1916 (influenza), 1.1.1917 (suspected mumps), 23.12.1917 (scabies & orchitis).

Wounded in action - 31.7.1916 (GSW face), 8.4.1918 (gassed, severe), 23.7.1918 (gassed, mild).

Awarded Military Cross 8.3.1919 for his bravery on the 3.10.1918 at the Beaurevoir line around Montbrehain, France, north of Mont St Quentin.

Mr. Hayes’s name has been inscribed on the St Andrew's Anglican Church First World War Roll of Honour, Tingha and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Tingha and District War Memorial.

I have placed poppies at Mark’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....

Younger brother Harold (born 1895?, Tomingley, New South Wales, labourer from Tingha, New South Wales, enlisted 23.9.1914, an Original Anzac, 13th Battalion, Reg No-272, KIA 10.8.1915 at Hearins Post near No. 3 Outpost, age 20, resting at New Zealand No 2 Outpost Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey. Sp. Mem. 9.

An individual Memorial Plaque for Harold has been placed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall, located in the grounds of the cemetery, date and person responsible unknown.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/

Lest We Forget.

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