Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

10/08/1915

Date of Discharge

14/06/1919

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Seymour, Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Home Affairs Camp, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

Mary Moore (mother), Railway Parade, Camberwell, Victoria

Service Number

1444

Final Rank

Gunner

Final Unit

10 Field Artillery Brigade AIF

Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW (spelt 'Halsam')

Haslam volunteered at Queanbeyan 17 July 1915 and embarked with reinforcements to the 1st Light Horse Regiment in October that year. After being treated for bronchial catarrh and mumps he transferred to the 4th Division Artillery at Tel-el-Kebir and was taken on strength with the 10th Field Artillery Brigade, 38th Battery. He arrived in France in June 1916. After the Armistice he was attached to the War Chest Club in London and returned to Australia in April 1919 before being discharged on 14 June 1919 in Melbourne. Haslam died in 1957 in Victoria.

Description - height 5 feet 8½ inches, weight 170 pounds, chest 36½-40 inches, ruddy complexion, hazel eyes, brown hair, Church of England, no civil convictions.

Our Queanbeyan 'Boys' No.3, Howard & Shearsby, Yass (postcard)
Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Queanbeyan Age - 15 October 1915
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)