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Noel Alfred Douglas HAYLES

Regimental number616
Place of birthNorth Shore, Sydney, New South Wales
SchoolWest Monmouth Grammar School, and Agricultural College at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
OccupationTram conductor
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation25
Height5' 10"
Weight147 lbs
Next of kinCousin, A W Hayles, Armidale, Upper Pontnewyda near Newport Monmonth, England
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date3 September 1914
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll3 September 1914
Place of enlistmentSydney, New South Wales
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name13th Battalion, F Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/30/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A38 Ulysses on 22 December 1914
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll13th Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularArrived in Australia, 1914. Three years farming in Canada. Three years farming in South America
FateDied of wounds 20 June 1915
Place of death or woundingGallipoli, Turkey
Date of death10 May 1915
Place of burialAt Sea
Commemoration detailsThe Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 38), Gallipoli, Turkey

The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.

The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.

The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.

Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
69
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Alfred and Maud HAYLES, Armidale, Pontnewydd, Mon., England
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Embarked Melbourne, 22 December 1914.

Embarked Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 12 April 1915.

Wounded in action (head wound, 'very serious'), Gallipoli, 3 May 1915; died of wounds, Hospital Ship 'Galeka', 10 May 1915; buried at sea.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, HAYLES Noel Alfred Douglas

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