HYLAND, Thomas Benedict
| Service Number: | 1380 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 November 1914, Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, May 1894 |
| Home Town: | Bathurst, Bathurst Regional, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Bathurst Patrician Brothers School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 6 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC II C 15, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bathurst War Memorial Carillon, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1380, 4th Infantry Battalion, Liverpool, New South Wales | |
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| 11 Feb 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1380, 4th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Feb 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1380, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Melbourne | |
| 2 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1380, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 6 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1380, 4th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Private Thomas Yland, 21 years old, who was reported missing between August 6 and 9, and last night reported killed in action, was a native of Bathurst, where he was engaged in the bakery trade, and just prior to his departure was engaged in the railway service. He left Sydney last February for Egypt.
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Thomas Benedict HYLAND (Service Number 1380) was born in Bathurst about May 1894. He worked in the Permanent Way Section of the Railways.
He enlisted at Liverpool on 10th November 1914. He claimed three years’ experience in the Citizen Forces at Bathurst. Being unmarried, he gave his mother as his next of kin. He admitted that he had a conviction by the Civil Power – for playing cards on Sunday!
He left Australia from Sydney on 11th February 1915 aboard HMAT ‘Seang Bee’ and underwent further training in Egypt.
For the first few days of April 1915 Hyland was in hospital at Mena. Therefore, he did not embark with his Battalion for Gallipoli and did not land with them on Anzac Day. He did however join them soon after on 2nd May. After the intense action of the landing, the campaign settled down until a major offensive in early August. Such was the chaos at this time that the many deaths, including Hyland’s, are often without specific date.
Quartermaster Sergeant Claydon reported:
‘….that Hyland was with him just before the charge at Lone Pine. He went in the charge and got to the enemy trenches and was there for 20 minutes or more. Saw nothing of him after that.’
He was at first buried in Browns Dip North Cemetery, located 500 yards South of Anzac Cove. However, about 1923 the remains were exhumed and re-interred in Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, 1⅜ miles SE of Anzac Cove.
Hyland’s mother was granted a pension of £52 per annum.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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