Andrew Joseph HAYES

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Service Number:	5500
Enlisted:	14 October 1915, Enlisted at Brisbane, QLD
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Australian Employment Company
Born:	Cooma, New South Wales, Australia, 1883
Home Town:	Cloncurry, Cloncurry, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 1961, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

14 Oct 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5500, 9th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Brisbane, QLD
20 Apr 1916:	Involvement Private, 5500, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Hawkes Bay embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
20 Apr 1916:	Embarked Private, 5500, 9th Infantry Battalion, SS Hawkes Bay, Sydney
13 Oct 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 31st Infantry Battalion, From 9th Battalion
11 Nov 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Australian Employment Company, From 31st Battalion
13 Nov 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5500, Australian Employment Company, Discharged at the 1st Military District

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Son of Patrick Hayes and Elizabeth Hayes of Cooma, NSW

Next of kin given as his brother William Hayes of Orange, NSW

On 26 January 1919 Andrew married Edith Phyllis Wilson in the Weymouth Registry Office, Dorset, England. Registrar Thomas Charles Morris officiated

Commenced return to Australia on 23 July 1919 aboard HT Port Lincoln disembarking on 21 September 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal