Hugh Daniel DRAFFIN

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DRAFFIN, Hugh Daniel

Service Number:	3036
Enlisted:	30 May 1916, 8 years 4th Infantry, NSW
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	34th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Albury, New South Wales, Australia, 1 August 1880
Home Town:	Glen Innes, Glen Innes Severn, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Blacksmith
Died:	Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, Tighes Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 28 July 1931, aged 50 years
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-6NW. 86
Memorials:	Glen Innes & District Soldiers Memorial, Singleton Public School HR, Singleton War Memorial

World War 1 Service

30 May 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3036, 34th Infantry Battalion, 8 years 4th Infantry, NSW
24 Jan 1917:	Involvement Private, 3036, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: ''
24 Jan 1917:	Embarked Private, 3036, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney
12 Sep 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 34th Infantry Battalion, Periods at TSgt in 1917
1 Dec 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 3036, 34th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

90 years ago today, on the 29th July 1931, Corporal Hugh Daniel Draffin, 34th Battalion (Reg No-3036), blacksmith from Glen Innes, New South Wales and Singleton, N.S.W. and 33 Margaret Street, Tighes Hill, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 50. PRESBYTERIAN-6NW. 86.

Born at Albury, New South Wales on the 1st August 1880 to David Daniel and Rose A Draffin, Hugh enlisted May 1916 at Armidale, N.S.W.

Sustaining no wounds during his service, Hugh returned home October 1919, being discharged fit and well on the 1st December 1919.

Mr. Draffin’s name has been inscribed on the Singleton War Memorial, Singleton Public School Roll of Honour (photo, unveiled on the 24th May 1917 - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article80456183) and the Glen Innes & District Soldiers Memorial.

Hugh’s headstone inscription gives us no indication of his service with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King and Country.

Lest We Forget.

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