HYLAND, Louis
| Service Number: | 270 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 August 1914, Broadmeadows, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 2nd ANZAC Corps Mounted Regiment (XXII Corps) |
| Born: | Benalla, Victoria, Australia, 1874 |
| Home Town: | Benalla, Benalla, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cook |
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World War 1 Service
| 19 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Trooper, 270, 4th Light Horse Regiment, Broadmeadows, Vic. | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 270, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 270, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 25 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 270, 4th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 6 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 270, 4th Light Horse Regiment, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli | |
| 13 May 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, I ANZAC Corps Mounted Regiment, France | |
| 7 Jul 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 2nd ANZAC Corps Mounted Regiment (XXII Corps), France | |
| 1 Mar 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 270, 2nd ANZAC Corps Mounted Regiment (XXII Corps), The Outpost Villages - German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line | |
| 7 Jun 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 270, 2nd ANZAC Corps Mounted Regiment (XXII Corps), Battle of Messines | |
| 10 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Trooper, 270, 2nd ANZAC Corps Mounted Regiment (XXII Corps), Third Ypres, GSW left foot. Evacuated to England. | |
| 26 Jun 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 270, 2nd ANZAC Corps Mounted Regiment (XXII Corps), RTA 10 March 1918 and discharged as medically unfit (debility, chronic rheumatism, senility). |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Born in Benalla in 1874, Louis Hyland, served in the Boer War, where as Trooper SN 586, Victorian Imperial Bushmen, he was promoted to Corporal for bravery at Waterkloof. He was slightly wounded in the action, however details are unknown. He was also Mentioned in Dispatches 20 August 1901 (London gazette).
He enlisted a second time for Boer War service on January 8, 1902 as a Trooper (SN 581) with the 2nd Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse.
Louis again signed up on August 19, 1914, aged 40, with the 4th ALH Regiment (SN 270), serving at Gallipoli from late May 1915, and then with the 2nd Anzac Mounted Regiment on the Western Front from mid 1916 to late 1917, before being discharged medically unfit in June 1918.
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