Lance Corporal 692

31st Battalion

Colac, Victoria

Mr. T Hyde of Leongatha

Melbourne 1/7/1915

Age 21 years 6 months 5'9", 10 stone 7 pounds, brown eyes black hair.

Presbyterian

Farmer

He was killed in action on 2/11/1917 at Passchendaele

He was buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery

He was from the Koorooman East area


He attended Koorooman East State School
He is on the Koorooman East Honour Roll
1/7/17 He enlisted in Melbourne
9/11/15 He embarked Melbourne on HMAT Wandilla
7/12/15 He arrived at Suez
19/6/16 He embarked Alexandria
25/6/16 He disembarked Marseilles
10/8/16 He was wounded in action. He had a gun shot wound to the left arm and shoulder and was admitted to hospital
13/8/16 He was taken to Boulogne
15/8/16 He went to England to Whrancliff War Hospital Middlesex Rd Sheffield
23/12/16 He returned to his unit the 31st Battalion
12/10/17 He became a Lance Corporal
2/11/17 He was killed in action
He was buried at Tynecot near Passchendale
His mother Ellen was denied a pension as she was not a dependent
27/3/1922 A letter related to the words to go on his headstone was sent to his family.
His father received his medals, plaque and scroll