HASTINGS, Patrick Edward
| Service Number: | 2025 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 31st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Surry Hills, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Ferrum College, Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation: | Bottle maker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, Germany, 25 October 1916, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
AIF Burial Ground, Grass Lane, Flers, France Plot II, Row D, Grave No. 17, AIF Burial Ground, Flers, Picardie, France, Niederzwehren Cemetery, Niederzwehren, Germany |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 2025, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
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| 18 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 2025, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
31st Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement , Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
He was 25 and the son of Bridget Hastings, of Bridge St., Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, and the late Dominick Hastings.
He is remembered on the Mayo Great War Memorial in Mayo Peace Park, Garden of Remembrance, Lannagh Road, Castlebar, County Mayo.
The County Mayo Peace Park and Garden of Remembrance is a project to document people from County Mayo who lost their lives in both World Wars. The park was conceived by Michael Feeney. It was officially opened by Mary McAleese, the President of Ireland in October 2008. The annual Remembrance Day Services to commemorate the World War deceased began in 1999, when Feeney organised an official Remembrance mass in the Church of the Holy Rosary in Castlebar following research which showed that a significant number of County Mayo soldiers were killed in action in World War I and World War II.
Age on arrival in Australia-20
Address-26 Cleveland Avenue, Surry Hills, New South Wales.
Enlistment date 15 November 1915
Place of enlistment Casula, New South Wales
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/48/3
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A70 Ballarat on 18 February 1916.
Age at embarkation 23
Disembarked from HMAT ‘Ballarat’, Suez, 23 March 1916.
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular
'His father was at one time the leading merchant in Westport. Lost all his means in speculation, so my poor son had to go earn for us.' (Details from Mother)
War service: Egypt, Western Front
Taken on strength of 31st Bn, Duntroon Plateau, 1 April 1916.
Embarked Alexandria on HMT ‘Hororata’ and proceeded to join the British Expeditionary Force, 16 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 23 June 1916.
Taken ill in the field, 30 July 1916; admitted to 5th Divisional Rest Station, 2 August 1916; discharged to unit, 14 August 1916.
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