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HAY, Charles Frederick
(Service number 73501)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	06/05/1885	Place of Birth	Pleasant Point

Enlistment Information

Date	4 April 1917	Age	32 years
Address at Enlistment	Cheviot
Occupation	Saddler
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single, then married. Married Ruth STEVENS on 24 October 1917 at Kaponga, Taranaki. Child - Lucy Jane HAY born on 11 May 1918 at Ashburton.
Next of Kin	Mrs R. HAY (wife), 145 Peter Street, Ashburton
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 10½ inches. Weight 154 lbs. Chest measurement 36-38 inches. Complexion fair/medium. Eyes blue. Hair black. Sight - right eye 6/6, left eye 6/18. Hearing and colour vision both good. Limbs well formed. Full and perfect movement of all joints. Chest well formed. Heart and lungs normal. Free from hernia, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Not free of varicocele. Good bodily and mental health. Slight defects but not sufficient to cause rejection - ?....infra. No fits. No notification for consumtion. No treatment in a sanatorium or mental institution. No absence from work through ill-health or accident. Disability - physique; varicocele. Initially Class C2. Fit for saddlers work.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	40th Reinforcements, E Company
Date	10 July 1918
Transport	Tahiti
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	British War Medal
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	17 September 1919	Reason	Termination of period of Engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	8 June 1956	Age	71 years
Place of Death	Auckland
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Purewa Cemetery, Auckland
Memorial Reference	Block J, Row 8, Plot 17
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Charles Frederick HAY was born on 6 May 1885 at Pleasant Point, the third son John HAY and Frances Caroline née CRUSE. He was a brother of Peter HAY who was killed in action in 1917 at Ypres, Belgium.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Darabase [29 March 2016]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ ref. AABK 18805 W5539 0052395) [30 March 2016]; Press, 20 December 1910, 7 July 1915, Star, 14 March 1917, Wanganui Chronicle, 22 February 1913, 5 February 1916, Star, 14 March 1917, Otago Daily Times, 6 August 1919 (Papers Past) [30 March 2016]

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