Profile

HAY, Peter
(Service number 56928)

Aliases	Petor
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	26/01/1874	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs F. Hay (mother), Geraldine, New Zealand
Religion
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	28th Reinforcements Otago Infantry Regiment, D Company
Date	26 July 1917
Transport	Ulimaroa
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Plymouth, England

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

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		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	3 December 1917	Age	34
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Buttes New British Cemetery (NZ) Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Peter Hay was the son of Francis C. Hay, of 109 Cox St., Ashburton, New Zealand, and the late John Hay. Native of Geraldine, Canterbury.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [24 Nov 2013]; Military Record held at Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R16793310

External Links

Researched and Written by

John Sutherland, SC branch NZSG

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