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Leongatha & District
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HISTORY OF THE FORMER WOORAYL SHIRE
Dumbalk • Inverloch • Koonwarra • Leongatha • Meeniyan • Ruby
Tarwin Lower • Venus Bay • Walkerville
HYGHGATE, William
Number:
L/7942
Royal Sussex Regiment
Brighton, Sussex 19/10/1880
His mother, Harriett Hyghgate of Brighton Sussex
Farm labourer
He died on 24/9/1918
Bellicourt British Cemetery
Lived in the Mt Eccles area before enlisting
He had served in the Boer War & enlisted to join his former regiment, they sailed on the first Anzac Convoy.
He was in the British forces was in Boer War. He left Mt Eccles to enlist and travel to England to join his old regiment.
He was in the Royal Sussex Regiment
He travelled to England on one ship of the Anzac Convoy. This ship carried those going to rejoin the regiments they had been in before.
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