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HAYES, Lionel Ross
(Service number 23/1664)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	13/12/1894	Place of Birth	Oamaru

Enlistment Information

Date	19 October 1915	Age	19 years 10 months
Address at Enlistment	Princes Street, Northcote, Auckland
Occupation	Surveyor's assistant
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Porter HAYES (mother), The Nook, Princes Street, Northcote, Auckland
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	3rd Reinforcements, 1st Battalion, E Company
Date	8 January 1916
Transport	Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian; Egyptian EF; Western European
Service Medals	British War Medal; Victory 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	23 May 1919	Reason	On termination of period of engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Clerk

Death

Date		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Lionel Ross Hayes was born on 13 December 1894 (though his military service records state 1895) at Oamaru. He was the younger son of Theodore Porter Hayes (Porter) and Elizabeth Florence née Ross. Porter, from Southland, and Elizabeth, of Oamaru, married in 1884 at Oamaru. They lived for a few years at Mabel Bush, Southland, moving in 1887 to Hakataramea where Porter managed Normanvale for upwards of ten years. In 1900 they were at Oamaru and by 1902 at Timaru. Lionel was educated at Oamaru Middle School, Teaneraki School near Oamaru, Timaru South School and Waimataitai School, Timaru. In February 1902, Lionel and his older sister Myrtle Hayes transferred to Timaru South School, and in 1904 Lionel transferred to Waimataitai School. The youngest of the family (Rita Tui Hayes), who was born at Timaru, started at Waimataitai in 1911, transferring to Northcote, Auckland, in 1914. Lionel Hayes was awarded Merit in the Infant Department of Oamaru Middle School in 1899. He was first equal in drawing and in brush drawing at Waimataitai School in 1906. He received a special prize for brush work. Lionel enlisted on 19 October 1915 at Trentham. A surveyor’s assistant, residing with is parents, and single, he named his mother as next-of-kin – Mrs Porter Hayes, The Nook, Northcote, Auckland. Rifleman L. R. Hayes embarked with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade of the 3rd Reinforcements, departing from Wellington for Suez, Egypt, on 8 January 1916, per the “Tahiti”. Sergeant L. R. Hayes returned home by Draft 234 which was expected at Auckland about 24 april 1919. After more than three years of service overseas in Egypt and Western Europe, Lionel was discharged on 23 May 1919. He married English-born Doris Eugenie Maunder in New Zealand in 1926. Doris had come to New Zealand with her parents. For some years they lived in the Auckland area, Evidence of Lionel after 1931 is scant and similarly for Doris after 1943. However Lionel was referred to as being in Tahiti in his mother's death notice. Perhaps he died there and his wife Doris returned to New Zealand? The Auckland Star of 25 June 1932 reports:

"Deaths. HAYES. — On June 24, at 24, Seacliffe Road, Belmont (suddenly), Elizabeth, dearly beloved wife of Porter Hayes, and darling mother of Lionel (Tahiti), Myrtle, and Tui. Interred this day at O'Neill's Point Cemetery."

Lionel’s brother, Charles Wesley (William) Hayes, also served in World War One, dying of influenza in 1919. Elizabeth Hayes died at her Auckland residence in June 1924, at which time Lionel was in Tahiti, and Porter Hayes died at a private hospital in April 1936. They were buried at O’Neill’s Point Cemetery, Takapuna.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [22 June 2023]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [22 June 2023]; School Admission record (Oamaru & South Canterbury branches NZSG) [22 June 2023]; NZ Electoral Rolls (ancestry.com.au) [22 June 2023]; Oamaru Mail, 21 December 1899, Timaru Herald, 21 December 1906, NZ Times, 8 April 1919, Auckland Star, 25 June 1932, 3 April 1936 (Papers Past) [22 June 2023]; NZ BDM Historical Records at https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz [2 July 2024]; SCRoll submission by R Hayes, 14 June 2024.

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, South Canterbruy Genealogy Society

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