Regimental number | 3340 |
Place of birth | Woodspoint, Victoria |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Bootmaker |
Address | 88 Union Street, East Brunswick, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 30 |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs E Haigh, Trawalla, 57 Beach Street, Hampton, Victoria |
Previous military service | Nil |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 8th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/25/4 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A71 Nestor on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 6th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium |
Age at death | 34 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 32 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 46 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Frederick and Emma HAIGH, 'Murilea', Beach Road, Sandringham, Victoria |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Taken on strength, 6th Bn, Serapeum, 22 February 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 25 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 30 March 1916. Attached to 1st Pioneer Bn, 28 September 1916; rejoined 6th Bn from detachment, 5 January 1917. Admitted to 6th Australian Field Ambulance, 25 January 1917 (dental); transferred to 5th Division Rest Station, 25 January 1917; discharged to duty, 9 March 1917; rejoined unit, 10 March 1917. Found guilty by Field General Court Martial, 26 June 1917, of when in billets being found beyond the limits fixed by Bn Routine Orders without a pass or written leave from his commanding officer, 27 May 1917: awarded 7 days' Field Punishment No. 2. Found guilty, 4 July 1917, of disobedience of B[attalion] R[outine] O[rders] by failing to return leave pass to the Corporal of the Guard: awarded 12 days' Field Punishment No. 2. On leave to England, 7 September 1917; rejoined Bn from leave, 22 September 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 15 October 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |