1938
HAY, Keith Graham
| Service Number: | 1969 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 October 1915, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 14th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 8 March 1897 |
| Home Town: | Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Freeling, South Australia, Australia, 12 June 1957, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
West Terrace Cemetery (General) Road 5 |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1969, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Adelaide, SA | |
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| 10 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 1969, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 1969, 9th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Warilda, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Gunner, 1969, 14th Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
1969 Keith Graham HAY was born at Mount Gambier on 8 March 1897. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 27 September 1910 by his father, James Hay, a drover, of Chute Street, Mount Gambier. He left school on 13 October 1911.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 27 October 1915 (18, farmer, single, Presbyterian) naming his father, James Hay of Kongorong, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Warilda’ on 10 February 1916 as a reinforcement for the Light Horse. He was transferred to the 5th Division Artillery in 1 April 1916 and taken on strength of the 14th Field Artillery Brigade but was hospitalised in May and June of 1916 for observation and subsequently returned to Australia on the ‘Clan McGillivray’ for discharge, leaving England on 15 August 1916. He and Trooper Reginald Buchanan Gaillard returned to Mount Gambier by train on Monday 21 August. A crowd of several hundred were at the railway station, including the official party led by Mayor Renfrey and Colonel Howland along with the Mount Gambier Band and the Salvation Army Band, but Hay managed to slip away without being noticed. He was discharged on 4 February 1917 as ‘medically unfit’ as a result of a diseased heart.
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