HARDY, Edward Caro
| Service Number: | 618 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 August 1914, Sydney |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia. , 24 May 1888 |
| Home Town: | Woollahra, Woollahra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tram Conductor |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 3 May 1915, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 618, 1st Infantry Battalion, Sydney | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 618, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 618, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Sydney | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 618, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 3 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 618, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Edward Caro HARDY, (Service Number 618) was born on 24 May 1888 at Shellhaven, NSW (sic). He had been employed as a casual tram conductor from September 1911 and was a permanent employee from June 1912.
He was killed in action on 3 May 1915, at Gallipoli. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial.
Submitted 29 August 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Edward Caro HARDY (Service Number 618) was born on 24th May 1888 at Shellhaven, NSW. He was employed as a casual tram conductor from September 1911 and was a permanent employee from June 1912. He was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 1st September 1914. He had already enlisted at Sydney a week before and had given his father as his next of kin as he was unmarried. He was allotted to the 1st Australian Infantry Battalion.
Hardy left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Afric’ on 18 th October 1914.
He was killed in action on 3 rdMay 1915 at Gallipoli. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial.
Hardy left an ex-nuptial child – Arthur Duke Shirlaw – and the disposal of medals and other mementoes took some sorting out. In the end the 1914/1915 Star, the Victory Medal and the memorial Scroll were distributed to the child’s mother – Miss Florence May Shirlaw – in trust for Hardy’s son. The British War Medal (with clasps), the Memorial Plaque and the Brochure ‘Where the Australians Rest’ went to his father who had been nominated as next of kin. This resolution took a number of years because the child was at some time a ward of the state placed in foster care. Miss Shirlaw was not be easily located and nor could Hardy’s father. Notices were placed in newspapers and police in Bathurst and Sydney obtained sworn statements.
Arthur Shirlaw had been born about the time of Hardy’s enlistment and maintenance of the child had been ordered by the courts and deducted from military pay. The child was also awarded a pension on the basis of his father’s service.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
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