HALLIDAY, Joseph
| Service Number: | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 8 November 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 47th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia, 16 November 1890 |
| Home Town: | Tenterfield, Tenterfield Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Mg Bullets During Advance, Messines, Belgium, 7 June 1917, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 27), Belgium, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2019, 47th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 2019, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 2019, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Melbourne | |
| 1 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 47th Infantry Battalion | |
| 7 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 2019, 47th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2019 awm_unit: 47th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-06-07 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
Frank Mahieu, Karen Tromp and Ken Halliday.
Battle of Messines 7 June 1917, commemorating 2 of my adopted soldiers: HENRY CHARLES HALLIDAY, aged 31, who is buried Toronto Avenue Cemetery, and his brother Joeseph (JOHN to family) HALLIDAY, aged 27 who is commemorated on Menin Gate. Both brothers were killed on 7 June 1917 at Messines. Henry (aka Dick) served with 33rd Btn. while John (aka Jack) served with 47th Btn. Australian Infantry. J
This act of remembrance done united with Ken Halliday and his family for whom I adopted both Halliday brothers.
THEY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN. LEST WE FORGET.
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
Further from Brothers who died in the Great War by Frank Mahieu
“Joseph” Halliday, in fact John and nicknamed Jack, was born November 16, 1890. He was the first of the brothers to enlist. He was accepted into C Company 20th Battalion AIF on 30 March 1915 at Liverpool (UK). When home, in Australia,on final leave before departure for service overseas he contracted pneumonia which laid him aside for several months. He re-enlisted as Joseph Halliday with “B” Company 47th Battalion at Armidale on 8 November 1915.
As the Red Cross file on his death says he was big, dark, clean shaven and a very quiet chap. The same report says he was shot by heavy machine gun fire, so breaking his two arms as he then fell in to a shell crater. He wasn’t seen or found afterwards. Another report says he was hit by a piece of shell, which happened near “Hun’s Walk” at Messines. His brother Ted, who was with him and saw John being hit, also wrote his story in a letter home, (See later in this account).
John so was killed, or died of wounds, that 7 June 1917, aged 27, at the start of the Messines Mine Battle. He has no known Grave and is remembered at the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial.
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