Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
Pte Allan Melrose Hayes, All Australia Memorial,
page M115.
Hayes A M Pte 447 Alan Melrose 7 Inf Bn 19 Clerk Single C of E
Address: Moonee Ponds, Sussex St, 26
Next of Kin: Hayes, J T, 26 Sussex St, Moonee Ponds
Enlisted: 15 Aug 1914
Embarked: A20 Hororata 19 Oct 1914
Prior service: 3 years senior cadets.
Relatives on Active Service:
Hayes J M Sgt 410 brother
Hayes T B Gunner 22257 brother
Hayes R K Pte 3320 brother (enlisted Mildura 1917)
Date of Death: 25/04/1915
CWGC: "Son of John Thomas Hayes and Jeannie Hayes, of Merbein South, Victoria, Australia. Native of Northcote".
LONE PINE MEMORIAL
Australian Red Cross Society Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau Correspondence - Extracts
Australian War Memorial Collection
1 L/Cpl A M Hayes 447 7th AIF
"Killed through head April 25th while disembarking, was pulled out of the water by a man called Haddon".
Pte Prunty, 424
B Co
Valetta, Malta
9/7/15
2 Not heard of since 25/4/15
Witness states that Hayes was killed on landing, on April 25th near
"Fisherman's Hut", Witness, who is of the same Battalion as Hayes,
states he saw him lying dead. He (witness) is about to return to
Australia.
Ref: Faker [possibly typo for Baker], Cpl, 7th Bn, AIF. Mena House Hospital,
Cairo.
19/8/15
3 No news since landing April 25
Witness says there were two men named Hayes in the Batt. He saw the grave
of Pte Hayes in the burying ground near the main sap leading from the beach
and was told at the time by a friend who knew Hayes that the inscription was
wrong as the dead man was really a Corpl. He has heard that Sgt Hayes came back to Egypt wounded.
P Howlett
AMC details. 7th AIF
Heliopolis
7/9/15
4 No news since landing April 25
Witness states that Hayes was killed in a boat before he was able to land on
24.4.15 and buried on shore. His boat was that was following the one
witness was in.
[Illegible Burton? Easton?] Lieut
7th AIF
1st Aust Gen Hosp
Helipolis
15.9.15
5 No news since landing April 25
Witness was near to Hayes and saw him killed , by shrapnel, about the end of
May. He says Hayes was buried in the cemetery on the Peninsula.
Ref: Pte K Costello 1528
7th AIF
1st Aust Gen Hosp
Helipolis
29.9.15
6 No news since landing April 25
Board of Enquiry decided that Hayes was wounded 25/4/15.
Rumour that he went into German Officers' Trench or dug-out
with others, and has not been seen since.
Reference - Records
Oct 28, 15
P Ker
(Now cancelled from London.
"K. on evidence.)
7 (M. April 25th)
Informant states "on April 25th at the original landing I saw
L/Cpl Hayes shot as he was getting out of the boat. He was killed
He jumped out just before me. I knew him well".
Reference Pte T Simpson 1189
7th Australian Imperial Force
Harefield Hospital, London, Middlesex
Home address: Clarence St, Newmarket, Melbourne, Australia
March 7th, 1916
J Burnett
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In answer to an inquiry from the army in 1921 as to whether the family had any information about where Allan's body may have been buried, his father replied as follows:
Merbein South July 2nd/21
Dear Sir In replying to your letter re L C A M Hayes 447, 7th Batt. I have been waiting to hear from my daughter who has been in Melbourne and who was trying to find out something else but did not get any satisfaction The only statement we have got is that a member of the 7th Batt Private Stones saw my son wounded at the landing & that Major Jackson took all particulars & out them in his pocketbook but what took place after that I do not know & never could trace Major Jackson. I may state that I have nothing in writing to show just the true ? statement of Stones.
I am yours faithfully J T Hayes.
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Mentioned in this publication:
Essendon Gazette 22 July 1915 photo collected by school.
The Hayes family had learnt privately, possibly from Private Stones as mentioned above, that their son had died. Upon making inquiries to the army authorities, they received a letter ensuring them that Hayes had been wounded only. A few weeks after that they received a returned letter from the dead letter office endorsed 'Killed'. Further enquiries could not locate anyone who could say for sure whether Hayes had died at the landing, and it was not until a Board of Enquiry set up in France in June 1916 that Hayes was determined to have died on the first day. The envelope is included in the soldier's B2455 file. The envelope was endorsed by K L Walker Lieut who had landed with Hayes as a Lance Corporal, but by the time enquiries were being made, Walker too had been killed, and the authorities were unable to get confirmation that Hayes had been killed.
War Service Commemorated
Essendon Town Hall F-L
“Send off to the Essendon Boys”
Essendon State School
Moonee Ponds West State School
Patriotic Concert 1914 (AJ)
St James Church of England, Moonee Ponds *
St Thomas' Anglican Church*
St Thomas' Memorial Hall
Ascot Vale Congegational Church Honour Board
Anzac Honoured Dead 25 Apr 1915
Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour killed
IN MEMORIAM
HAYES.-In loving memory of Lance-Corporal
Alan Melrose (447), who was killed in action
on the 25th April, 1915, at the age of 19 years,
the sixth and much loved son of J. T. and J. Hayes,
Merbein, and dear brother of Mesdames F. T.
Treadwell and G. H. Rainbow, Gordon, Reginald,
Sergeant James (returned Anzac), Private Rupert,
Gunner Trevor, and Ross.
We miss the bright and sunny face, His kindly acts
and manly way, Where'er the path of duty lay,
He was there to do his share.
To memory - he lives.
The Argus 25 April 1918
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1654889
HAYES.— In proud and loving memory of our
dearly loved son and brother, Lance-Corporal
Alan Melrose Hayes, who fell at the landing on
the 25th April, 1915.
To memory ever dear.
The Argus 25 April 1919
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1460731
HAYES.— In loving memory of our beloved Alan
Melrose, who fell at the landing, 25/4/15.
Memory keeps him always near.
The Argus 24 April 1920
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1695106
No further years checked.
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