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Haddon, Percy, 5115

Service No:	5115
Occupation:	Farm labourer
Address:	Seville
Date of Enlistment:	July 22, 1915
Age at Enlistment:	23 years 4 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	5ft 6 ¾ ins, weighing 10 st. 3 lbs with dark brown hair, blue eyes and fresh complexion.
Next of Kin:	Annie Haddon, mother, 57 Flemington Rd, North Melbourne
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	46th Battalion
Embarkation Details:	March 14, 1916 at Melbourne, on the Anchises.

Places and dates of service:

1916, April 15: 4th Training Battalion to Tel el Kebir
1916, May 20:12th Training Battalion
1916, June 7:To join BEF, Alexandria to Marseilles
1916, August 14: 46th Battalion, France
1917, January 27:Killed in Action, France – he has a memorial at Villers Bretonneux Memorial MR26, Part 111.

Returned to Australia:	N/A
Discharge Date:	N/A
Rank at Discharge:	N/A
Honours/Medals:	British War Medal; Victory Medal
Memorials:	Seville Honour Roll; Shire of Lillydale Honour Honour Board

Family Story:

Percy was born at St Kilda in 1892, to Thomas Joseph Haddon, who died around 1912, and Annie Haddon, later Storey.
He was Anglican with no brothers. On enlistment Percy was given a send-off at Seville. During his absence, or by 1923, Annie changed her surname and address to Annie Storey, 259 Queensbury St Carlton.

Annie visited the YMCA in Melbourne in 1919 to inquire as to how Percy had died, where he was buried, and if there were any photographs of his grave. Also in 1919, Annie signed at Statutory Declaration saying she was Percy’s mother.

Haig, J.C.J.,

Hamilton, George “Bung” Henry, 4212

Service No:	4212
Occupation:	Labourer
Address:	Clarke St, Lilydale
Date of Enlistment:	August 9, 1915
Age at Enlistment:	40 years and 2 months
Marital Status:	Married
Physical Description:	5ft 7 ins weighing 12 stone, with auburn hair, grey eyes and mid complexion.
Next of Kin:	Mrs G. H. Hamilton, wife
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	1st Pioneers
Embarkation Details:	at Melbourne on December 29, 1915, on the Demusthenes.

Welcome Home Lilydale Express Report September 13, 1918

Places and dates of service:

1916, March 17:1st Pioneer Battalion
1916 March 26:Embarked Alexandria to join BEF. Disembarked Marseilles
1916 July 23:wounded, France and remained on duty.
1917 December 16: Developed rheumatism and myalgia
1917 December 30:Embarked for England unfit.
1918 April 21: to return to Australia for discharge with ‘premature senility’

Returned to Australia:	June 7 1918 on the Suevic A29
Discharge Date:	July 17, 1918
Rank at Discharge:	Private
Honours/Medals:	British War Medal; Victory Medal
Memorials:	Shire of Lillydale Honour Board; Lilydale State School Honour Roll

Family Story:

George, known as ‘Bung’, was born at Wandin in 1875. He attended Lilydale State School. After he enlisted his wife moved from Clarke St to John St, Lilydale, then to 16 Stanley St Collingwood; ‘Broadclyst’ George St Fitzroy, then 219 Gore St, Fitzroy. George was discharged with premature dementia in 1918. He attended a welcome home  by the Shire of Lillydale, which was recorded in the Lilydale Express of September 13, 1918. By 1926 he was living at Main St, Lilydale and claiming that he had lost his discharge papers.
George was a member of the Lilydale RSL.
Their minutes, February 5, 1920, record condolences on the death of Mrs Hamilton and the sending of a wreath. On February 26, 1931 the meeting voted to allow the children of George Hamilton, formally Fisher, to attend branch Christmas parties.

In 1929 George, then a wood-carter, remarried to widow Elsie Fisher, mentioned in Gun Alley and Stories behind the Headstones. Elsie’s husband Albert Ernst Fisher, horse trainer, had died in 1923 leaving her with four children. The town rallied to raise funds, purchasing them a home in John St. By 1933, RSL minutes show his children were step son Victor, 10; George Henry, 3; Ian, 2 George died in 1949. He and his son George Henry jun. are buried at Lilydale Lawn Cemetery

Hardup, C.,

Hargrave, Felix, 1097 [formerly 1357]

Service No:	1097 [formerly 1357]
Occupation:	Labourer
Address:	Not listed
Date of Enlistment:	November 11, 1914
Age at Enlistment:	22 years and 7 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	Felix was 5ft 10 ¼ ins, weighing 10st 6lb with black hair, hazel eyes and ruddy complexion.
Next of Kin:	Mrs A. Grey, Lilydale – his Aunt
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	7th Battalion/1st Brigade
Embarkation Details:	February 1, 1915 on the Gasson

Places and dates of service:

1915 April 5: Embarked to join Gallipoli Campaign
1915 July 7:Wounded in action, Gallipoli – shock & concussion
1915 July 18:Hospitalised Malta
1915 July 28:Wounded in action, Gallipoli – gunshot wound to back
1915 August 28:Hospitalised England
1916 July 25:After training at Tidworth, proceeded to France to join unit.
1916 August 3:Appointed Acting Sergeant, France
1917 September 20:Wounded in action, France – bayonet wound
1918 December 4:Returned to Australia with rheumatism

Letter to home 1915.

Returned to Australia:	January 15,1919 on the Somerset
Discharge Date:	March 16, 1919
Rank at Discharge:	Private
Honours/Medals:	1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal;
Memorials:	Shire of Lillydale Honour Board

Family Story:

Felix was born at South Melbourne on April 27, 1892. He was Catholic.

While serving overseas, Felix was wounded three times and also suffered Trench Fever, arthritis of the knee, then was returned home with rheumatism.
Two descriptive accounts of his Gallipoli experiences were published in the Lilydale Express 15 October 1915 p5 and 5 November 1915 p5.

In 1939 Felix wrote from Junee, and from Gundagai with a Stat. Dec. outlining the loss of his discharge papers and Returned Soldiers Medal. He had been employed at Nyah West by orchardist Thomas Holmes at the time of the loss.

In November 1942, Pentridge Gaol found his RS Medal, C7981, in discarded clothing from the AMF HQ3 Salvage Depot. It was returned to Felix. Felix’s death  is recorded on Imperial War Graves list, No. 130, p6 died on March 18, 1953. However a Felix Hargrave died August,11, 1953 aged 61 and is buried at Williamstown Cemetery.

Hargrave, Oliver Gregory (enlisted as Murphy, Alfred 3428)

See story under Murphy, Alfred.

Hastie, George, 2668

Service No:	2668
Occupation:	Grocer
Address:	–
Date of Enlistment:	March 14, 1916
Age at Enlistment:	24 years and 3 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	George was 5ft 9 ¼ ins, weighing 148 lbs, with light brown hair, blue eyes and fresh complexion.
Next of Kin:	David Hastie, Presbyterian Soldiers Inst., Seymour – father.
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	58th Battalion
Embarkation Details:	George embarked from Melbourne on October 2nd 1916 on the Nestor

Places and dates of service:

1916 August 1:Appointed Corporal, Broadmeadows.
1916 October 2: Appointed V/O Sergeant, at sea;
1916 November 16: reverted to ranks when he joined the 15th Btn.
1916 December 20: France
1917 February 7: 58th Battalion, France
1917 October 20: Promoted to Sergeant
1919 March 23: Detached to Graves Registration
1919 August 19: Returned to 58th Battalion

Returned to Australia:	November 13, 1919 on the Port Denison to Melbourne
Discharge Date:	January 4, 1920
Rank at Discharge:	TCSM
Honours/Medals:	British War Medal; Victory Medal
Memorials:	Shire of Lillydale Honour Board

Family Story:

George was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1891 to David Hastie and [?]. His father, David, moved from Seymour to Barooga Pastoral Coy., at Cobram, from whence he writes in October 1919 to a Mr Seidel, asking for a railway warrant to Melbourne so that he can meet his returning son, George.

George’s next of kin address changed to: c/o A. Bethune ‘Bonny Doon’