Ralph Maxwell HANNAY Update Details

HANNAY, Ralph Maxwell

Service Number: 1085
Enlisted: 9 November 1914
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 13th Infantry Battalion
Born: Tenterfield, Tenterfield Municipality - New South Wales, Australia, 1893
Home Town: Tenterfield, Tenterfield Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Surveyor's Assistant
Died: 16 April 1945, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW
North Terrace Wall 18
Memorials: Tenterfield Roll of Honour, Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW1
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World War 1 Service

9 Nov 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1085, 13th Infantry Battalion
22 Dec 1914: Involvement Private, 1085, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
25 Apr 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1085, 13th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
3 May 1915: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1085, 13th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Wounded in action, Gallipoli (gun shot wound, head), 3 May 1915; admitted to 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, 10 May 1915; discharged to Convalescent Camp, 27 May 1915. transferred to Base Details, Zeitoun, 3 June 1915. Embarked at Suez for return to Australia on board 'Ballarat', 5 July 1915. Discharged, 12 September 1916.
12 Sep 1916: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1085, 13th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit as a result of gunshot wounds

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

PRIVATE R. N. HANNAY.
Private Ralph Maxwell Hannay, 12th (N.S.W.) Infantry Battalion, who has been wounded, is the fifth son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hannay, of Cairnhill Aberdeenshire, Scotland and Willowbank, Tenterfield. He is 22 years of age. The wounded soldier has a brother at the front. He is an old Hurlstone boy. Another brother is Mr. Keith Hannay B. A. , Instructor R.A.N. College Jervis Bay.

Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Son of Peter and Elizabeth Turner Hannay, of Willowbank, Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia.