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HAY, Henry
(Service number 68570)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	02/02/1875	Place of Birth	Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farm Labourer - A J Nelson, Methven
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	single
Next of Kin	Mrs A Craig (sister) Cashmere Road, Chch
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	33rd Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Regiment, B Company
Date	31 December 1917
Transport	HMNZT 99, Athenic
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Wellington Infantry Regiment, 2nd 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	22 Sept 1918	Age	43
Place of Death	England
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Brookwood Miltary Cemetery, Woking, SUrrey, England
Memorial Reference	VIII. A 14
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Gleniti War Memorial; Waimataitai School War Memorial (as H W?)

Biographical Notes

Son of late John and Mary Hay. Sister Isabella (married Andrew Craig), Brother James Hay (solicitor in Timaru, died 1911) married Helen Mabel Le Cren 1897. James and Helen lived at Morven. Henry died of GSW (gun shot wounds) and acute pneumonia

Sources

Cenotaph

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG)

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