Robert Bernard HAYES

HAYES, Robert Bernard

    Service Numbers: 427 , 427
    Enlisted: 26 August 1914, Enlisted at Broadmeadows, Victoria
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 8th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Sale, Victoria, Australia, 1881
    Home Town: Sale, Gippsland, Victoria
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Carpenter
    Died: Heart failure, Repatriation General Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, 7 January 1956
    Cemetery: Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria
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    World War 1 Service

    26 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 427 , 8th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Broadmeadows, Victoria
    19 Oct 1914: Involvement Private, 427, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
    19 Oct 1914: Embarked Private, 427, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Melbourne
    25 Apr 1915: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 427 , 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Shrapnel wound to the shoulder
    15 Jun 1916: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 427 , 8th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit due to wounding

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Next of kin given as Mrs Bennusi of Sale, Victoria

    Commenced return to Australia on 8 October 1915 aboard HT Suevic

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

    Husband of Ellen Margaret Hayes of Gallipoli Parade, Pascoe Vale, Victoria. At the time of his death he was suffering from Emphysema, Tuberculois and heart issues

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