Alexander Hugh HASTINGS

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HASTINGS, Alexander Hugh

Service Number:	3537
Enlisted:	5 August 1915, Holsworthy, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia, 28 August 1893
Home Town:	Summer Hill, Ashfield, New South Wales
Schooling:	Lewisham Christian Brothers' School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Civil servant (Fisheries Dept)
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 22 July 1916, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sydney Officers of The Chief Secretary's Department, Government Statisticians Office, Master in Lunacy's Office, State Trawling Industry & Aborigines Protection Board Roll of Duty, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

5 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3537, Holsworthy, New South Wales
12 Dec 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3537, 19th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: ''
12 Dec 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3537, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Sydney
14 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Infantry Battalion
22 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3537, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3537 awm_unit: 2 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-22

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

"...3537 Private Alexander Hugh Hastings, 2nd Battalion, of Newcastle, NSW. A civil servant with the State Fisheries Department prior to enlisting on 5 August 1915, he embarked from Sydney, NSW, aboard HMAT Berrima on 12 December 1915. He was killed in action on 22 July 1916 at Pozieres, France, aged 23." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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