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HAY, Gilbert
(Service number 6/58)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	18 October 1891	Place of Birth	Shetland Islands

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Fireman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	single
Next of Kin	Thomas Hay, Fibister, Lerwick, Scotland
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	HMNZT 4 or 11; Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Gallipoli, Western Front
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	18 February 1917	Age	26
Place of Death	Messines, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Cite Bonjean (NZ) Memorial, Armentieres, Nord, France
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Son of Thomas M C and Elizabeth Hay, Fiblister, Lerwick, Scotland. Originally reported as a Prisoner of war in German hands, changed to killed in action 18/02/1917 on a Court of Inquiry's findings. 12/09/2014 - Connection to SC unknown at this stage (LS)

Sources

Cenotaph

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG)

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