HACKNEY, Henry Thomas
| Service Number: | 7593 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 5th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Mittagong, New South Wales, Australia, 11 January 1897 |
| Home Town: | Picton, Wollondilly, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Porter |
| Died: | Illness, France, 28 October 1918, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Etaples Military Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Picton and District Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7593, 2nd Division Artillery | |
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| 18 Nov 1915: | Involvement Gunner, 7593, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Nov 1915: | Embarked Gunner, 7593, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Persic, Sydney | |
| 28 Oct 1918: | Involvement Driver, 7593, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 7593 awm_unit: 5th Australian Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Driver awm_died_date: 1918-10-28 |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Henry Thomas HACKNEY, (Service Number 7593) was born on 11 January 1897 at Mittagong. He began working for the NSWGR as a junior porter in the Sydney District on 2 March 1914. He was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces in August 1915 but continued to receive pay increments and achieved the role of porter on his 21st birthday in 1918.
Hackney enlisted at Liverpool on 5 August 1915. Since he was not 21 years of age, his mother’s permission was required (his father was dead) and the document survives:
‘To whom it may concern I hereby certify to give my son Henry Thomas Hackney permission to fight in freedoms cause for the Empire E Boardman’ (sic)
He was allotted to the 5th Artillery Brigade and undertook training in the National Park.
Submitted 15 August 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Henry Thomas HACKNEY (Service Number 7593) was born on 11th January 1897 at Mittagong. He began working for the NSW Government Railways as a junior porter in the Sydney District on 2nd March 1914. He was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces in August 1915 but continued to receive pay increments and achieved the role of porter on his 21st birthday in 1918.
Hackney enlisted at Liverpool on 5th August 1915. Since he was not 21 years of age, his mother’s permission was required (his father was dead) and the document survives:
‘To whom it may concern I here by certify to give my son Henry Thomas Hackney permission to fight in freedoms cause for the Empire E Boardman’ (sic)
He was allotted to the 5th Artillery Brigade and undertook training in the National Park. He left Australia through Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Persic’ on 18th November 1915, reaching Suez in late December. He left Egypt in March from Alexandria. In April 1916 he was taken on the strength of the 2nd Divisional Artillery Column at Etaples, France. He transferred to Base Details at Calais and then to Base Depot at Etaples. In July 1916 his role was described as ‘mustered driver’ and he had re-joined the 2nd Divisional Artillery Column. In August he had a period of hospitalisation and this lasted until November.
In May 1917 he had three weeks leave and in July he was hospitalised again, at first diagnosed with venereal disease, but this was later changed to scabies. He re-joined 2nd DAC in August. He had more leave in England in February 1918. In October 1918 he was admitted to hospital with an injury to his kneecap as a result of an accidental injury. At this time however he contracted Influenza and died on 28th October 1918.
He is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery, France.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board