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HAYBURN, John Sinclair

Service Number:	359
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	23rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland, October 1887
Home Town:	Williamstown, Hobsons Bay, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carpenter and Joiner
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 25 August 1916
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated: - Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

10 May 1915:	Involvement Private, 359, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
10 May 1915:	Embarked Private, 359, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - John and Margaret Ann Hayburn (nee Rance).