Eugene HAYES

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Service Number:	6628
Enlisted:	8 August 1916, Enlisted at Brisbane, QLD
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company)
Born:	Tentrfield, New South Wales, Australia, 1885
Home Town:	Nundah, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Queensland, Australia, 12 December 1953, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Qld ANZAC area 8, Row 10, Grave 40
Memorials:

8 Aug 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 6628, Tunnelling Companies, Enlisted at Brisbane, QLD
17 Jan 1917:	Involvement Sapper, 6628, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Omrah embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
17 Jan 1917:	Embarked Sapper, 6628, Tunnelling Companies, RMS Omrah, Melbourne
13 Feb 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 6628, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), Gassed
19 Mar 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company)
21 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 6628, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), Discharged at the 1st Military District as medically unfit

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Son of Daniel Hayes and Eliza Hayes of Tenterfield, NSW

Husband of Annie Dorothea Hayes nee Walz of 'Vernon', Nundah, QLD. Eugene and Annie married on 9 August 1910 in QLD

Commenced return to Australia on 31 May 1919 aboard HT Aenaes disembarking on 12 July 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Brisbane

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal