HALLIDAY, Henry Charles
Service Number: | 2335 |
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Enlisted: | 1 May 1916 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 33rd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia, 4 September 1885 |
Home Town: | Bolivia, Tenterfield Municipality, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | GSW multiple, 9th Australian Field Ambulance, Hyde Park Corner, Messines, Belgium, 7 June 1917, aged 31 years |
Cemetery: |
Toronto Avenue Cemetery, Ploegsteert Wood Belgium Row A, Grave 2 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
1 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2335, 33rd Infantry Battalion | |
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17 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2335, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
17 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2335, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Frank Mahieu, Karen Tromp and Ken Halliday
Battle of Messines 7 June 1917, commemorating 2 of my adopted soldiers: HENRY CHARLES HALLIDAY, aged 31, who is buried Toronto Avenue Cemetery, and his brother JOHN HALLIDAY ,aged 27 who is commemorated on Menin Gate.. Both brothers were killed on 7 June 1917 at Messines. Henry (aka Dick) served with 33rd Btn. while John (aka Jack) served with 47th Btn. Australian Infantry. J
This act of remembrance done united with Ken Halliday and his family for whom I adopted both Halliday brothers.
THEY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN. LEST WE FORGET.
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Brothers who died in the Great War by Frank Mahieu
Pte Henry (Dick) Charles Halliday, born September 4, 1885 was a bush labourer from Bolivia, New South Wales. He enlisted together with his lifetime mate Dan McClifty with the 33rd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF on the 1st of May 1916 and left Sydney on board HMAT A30 "Borda" on the 17th of October 1916 at the age of 30.
Writing from the Western Front he said he never knew what it was to be cold before. “I will be glad when I get back, I have never had such rough times before in my life. I am in the firing lines now but it is not so bad. I don’t think the war will last too much longer. I have had only one letter but there is more over here some where. It is a bit off here to understand the French money but I am beginning to understand it now.” In early June 1917 he wrote to his father that “this sort of life does not suit me and I will be glad when the war is over and I get back home.” The first mail from Henry (Dick) had only arrived a few days ahead of news that he had been killed in action during the Battle of Messines in Belgium on 7 June 1917, aged 31. He, being wounded or dying along the way, was brought to the 9th Australian Field Ambulance located at Hyde Park Corner (at the corner of the Brugstraat and Mesenstraat in Ploegsteert, not far from the actual Hyde Park Corner Cemetery). Henry is buried at Toronto Avenue Cemetery (Ploegsteert). Henry is buried at Toronto Avenue Cemetery (Ploegsteert)