HALLIDAY, David Stewart
| Service Number: | 525 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 August 1914, An original of C Squadron |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Dublin, Ireland, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stockman |
| Died: | Died of Illness - War Service related , Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 26 July 1917 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 21 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 525, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, An original of C Squadron | |
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| 24 Sep 1914: | Involvement Private, 525, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of England embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Sep 1914: | Embarked Private, 525, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of England, Brisbane |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
David Stewart Halliday 2nd Light Horse Regiment died in Toowoomba Qqueensland on the 26 July 1917, age 30. Buried in the Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery. Married Ruth Irene Foggon on the 24 February 1917 in Queensland, so was only married for a few months.
He was in Queensland droving when he was one of the first men from the Toowoomba district to enlist in August 1914. He was with the 2nd Light Horse Regiment and served on Gallipoli from the 9 July 1915. He was diagnosed with dysentery during August 1915 and sent back to Egypt. He was diagnosed with phthisis (tuberculosis) in April 1916 and returned to Australia on 11 May 1916. He was discharged medically unfit with phthisis and anemia on 22 August 1916.
He died less than 12 months later in Toowoomba. It was reported in the Darling Downs Gazette that he was generally well known in the city and that he been working as the stock inspector attached to the Toowoomba office. He had married only five months previous. It was also reported in the newspaper that it was thought the illness that he had contracted at Gallipoli had something to do with his death.
His parents lived at Guildford, Western Australia and his brother 2622 Private Roderick McFarlane Halliday 51st Battalion was later killed in action on the 6 April, 1918. Age 23.
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