Haynes, Randolph Reginald (495)
Place of Birth: Annandale, NSW
Age: 26 years 1 month
Enlistment Details: Monday, 17 August 1914 – Albert Park, VIC
Service Number: 495 view online service record
Address:
16 Station Street
Port Melbourne, VIC
Next of Kin:
Mary Ann Watson (mother)
19 Harold Street
Newtown, NSW
Embarkation Details:
Date: Wednesday, 21 October 1914
Ship: HMAT Orvieto A3
Port: Melbourne, VIC
Unit: 5th Infantry Battalion
Fate:
KIA: Wednesday, 9 May 1917
Place: France
Address on Embarkation Roll given as South Melbourne but probably should be Port Melbourne.
Lance Corporal, 5 Infantry, killed in action 9 May, 1917, France, age 28, commemorated Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France
495 (Father: late, mother: Mrs Mary Ann WATSON (previously HAYNES), born Annandale, N.S.W., Enlisted giving his address as 161 Station Street, South Melbourne, but a Death Notice placed by a friend M. BOGLE at the address shows it as Port Melbourne (there has never been a Station Street in South Melbourne); mother shown at Newtown, Sydney as next of kin. He was 28 when killed, his mother suggested he came to Melbourne at 14 years of age. No known grave)
Additional Research by Brian Membrey