Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

27/06/1917

Date of Discharge

19/03/1920

Place of Enlistment

Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Wicklow, Ireland

Address (at enlistment)

Paddington NSW

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

Sarah Hayes (sister)

Service Number

3631

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

55 Battalion AIF

Hayes had previously served eight years with the Royal Irish Fusiliers and 15 months with the NSW Tropical Company as part of the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force which occupied Rabaul, New Guinea at the beginning of the war. He arrived in England after Christmas 1917 with reinforcements for the 55th Battalion and served with them in France from March to October 1918. He married a Sarah Polley in Bristol in 1919 before returning to Australia in February 1920.

Description - height 5 feet 7 inches, weight 150 pounds, chest 34-37 inches, dark complexion, hazel eyes, brown hair, Church of England, tattoos on both arms, scar on the back of his head.

NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
AWM First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls