Cecil Albert Victor HARDY

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HARDY, Cecil Albert Victor

Service Number:	2844
Enlisted:	10 November 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	33rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Gilgai, New South Wales, Australia, 21 January 1891
Home Town:	Glen Innes, Glen Innes Severn, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Blacksmith
Died:	Georgetown (Waratah), New South Wales, Australia, 31 May 1943, aged 52 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-164. 47.
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World War 1 Service

10 Nov 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2844, 33rd Infantry Battalion
25 Nov 1916:	Involvement Private, 2844, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: ''
25 Nov 1916:	Embarked Private, 2844, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney
24 Aug 2019:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2844, 33rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

80 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 1st June 1943, Private Cecil Albert Victor Hardy, 33rd Battalion (Reg No-2844), blacksmith from Lambeth Street, Glen Innes, New South Wales and 66 Christo Road, Georgetown (Waratah), N.S.W., father of one, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 52. ANGLICAN 3-164. 47.

Born at Gilgai, New South Wales on the 21st January 1891 as Cicil A V to Robert Augustus and Jemima Hardy; husband of Phyllis (Ellen G?) Hardy nee Cook (married 1934, Inverell, N.S.W., died? 1969, Maclean, N.S.W.), Cecil enlisted on the 10th November 1916 at Armidale, N.S.W.

Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A72 Beltana on the 25th November 1916.
Admitted to hospital 19.1.1918 (myalgia), 7.2.1918 (myalgia).

To Paris on leave from the 17.3.1918 to the 12.4.1918.

Wounded in action - 17.4.1918 (mustard & phosgene gas, severe, Villers-Bretonneux, France).

Cecil was invalided home on the 16th May 1919, being discharged on the 24th August 1919.

Mr. Hardy’s name has been inscribed on the Gilgai Honour Roll, Inverell St. Augustine's Anglican Church Honour Boards and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

I have placed poppies at Cecil’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Service record states Died after Discharge, 31/5/1943.
Officially commemorated 26.11.1943 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

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