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DAVIES, John Haydon
| Service Number: | 3050 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 March 1917, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 44th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cardiganshire, Wales, United Kingdom, May 1897 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | 19 November 1993, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia RSL Walls |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Mar 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3050, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, SA | |
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| 23 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 3050, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 3050, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Adelaide | |
| 4 Jul 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3050, 44th Infantry Battalion, Le Hamel - Blueprint for Victory, GSW abdomen | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 3050, 44th Infantry Battalion |
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John Haydn Davies was born in Cardiganshire, Wales, which is located in the United Kingdom, in around May, 1897. John was five foot eleven and a half inches tall and weighed one hundred and seventy-one pounds or seventy-seven and a half kilograms. His eyes were brown and his hair was dark. John worked as a mill hand on a farm in his early life before enlisting to go to war.
It was stated in the archival records that both of John’s parents were deceased.
John enlisted on the 12th March, 1917, in Adelaide at the age of nineteen years and ten months. On the 23rd June, 1917, he embarked aboard the HMAT Borda A30 also in Adelaide. In late April 1918 he arrived in France and was transferred to the 44th Battalion and fought in the Battle of Hamel. On the 4th July, at 3:10 am, with the rest of the 11th Brigade and the 4th and 6th Australian Brigades, the 44th Infantry Battalion attacked the village of Hamel in the hope of taking over the German positions. Although this attack ended up being successful from the attackers’ point of view, John was wounded with a gunshot to the abdomen that ended his active service in the war. On the 6th July, John was transported to a hospital for his wound to be treated but was then invalided (removed from active service) to the UK on the 8th July. John recovered in another hospital in the UK after being transported there on the 9th July.
John survived the Battle of Hamel in World War One and later returned to Australia on the 9th December, 1918. On the 20th December, 1919, he married Ellen Veronica Murphy at Congregational Manse, Port Pirie.
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