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HAY, Charles Robert
(Service number 3/2656)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	04/12/1888	Place of Birth	Lincoln

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Morven
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Margaret Ann HAY (mother), Morven, South Canterbury
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

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	24th Reinforcements (First Draft) Headquarters, New Zealand Medical Corps
Date	5 April 1917
Transport	Devon
Embarked From		Destination	Devonport, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns
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	13 March 1919	Reason	On account of illness contracted on Active Service.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

TB lung

Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date	8 January 1951	Age	62 years
Place of Death	Waimate
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Old Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Plot 000283
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Charles Robert Hay was the second son of John Taylor HAY who hailed from the orkney Islands and his wife Margaret Ann (Maggie) née Carson, from Northern Ireland.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [25 July 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [25 July 2017]

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