Philip Andrew HARDY

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HARDY, Philip Andrew

Service Number:	4344
Enlisted:	18 June 1917
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	48th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Tottenham, Middlesex, England, 29 November 1883
Home Town:	Leederville, Vincent, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 24 January 1961, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
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World War 1 Service

18 Jun 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4344, 2nd Pioneer Battalion
30 Oct 1917:	Involvement Private, 4344, 2nd Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
30 Oct 1917:	Embarked Private, 4344, 2nd Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Melbourne
2 Jan 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 32nd Infantry Battalion
16 Apr 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 48th Infantry Battalion
16 Sep 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4344, 48th Infantry Battalion
12 Jul 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4344, 48th Infantry Battalion, per City of Exeter to Fremantle, WA

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Philip was the sixth of ten children of William John Hardy (born 1851 in London) and Sarah Jane Rudge (born 1855 in London, England). William was an Artist and Engraver and Sarah a Nursery Governess when they married in London in 1877. They immigrated to Fremantle in Western Australia in 1893, and William continued working as an Artist and Engraver.

Philip, ten years of age when he arrived in Fremantle, WA with his family, worked initially in Fremantle as a Nurseryman, and then as a Railway Porter with the WAGR in Perth - on his Attestation Papers he stated he was a Farmer. Philip enlisted with the AIF in June 1917, serving as a Private (Service No:4344) with 12/2 Pioneers, 32nd Infantry Battalion and 48 Infantry Battalion. He was Discharged in 1919. Brothers Leo (Service No:4030) and Basil (Service No:2669) and Brother-in-Law Herbert Rigg (Service No:25977) served in WWI, and nephew Joseph Basil Hardy (Service Nos:WX27095/W80330) served in WWII.

Returning to Perth, WA Philip worked as a Labourer at Balkatta before relocating to Lake Grace where he worked as a Farm Labourer until he retired in 1955 and moved back to Perth. Philip died in Perth in 1961.

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