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HYLAND, Louis
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| Service Number: | 270 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 August 1914, Broadmeadows, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 2nd ANZAC Corps Mounted Regiment (XXII Corps) |
| Born: | Benalla, Victoria, Australia, 1874 |
| Home Town: | Benalla, Benalla, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cook |
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Biography contributed by Robert Wight
Born in Benalla in 1874, Louis Hyland, served in the Boer War, where as Trooper SN 586, Victorian Imperial Bushmen, he was promoted to Corporal for bravery at Waterkloof. He was slightly wounded in the action, however details are unknown. He was also Mentioned in Dispatches 20 August 1901 (London gazette).
He enlisted a second time for Boer War service on January 8, 1902 as a Trooper (SN 581) with the 2nd Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse.
Louis again signed up on August 19, 1914, aged 40, with the 4th ALH Regiment (SN 270), serving at Gallipoli from late May 1915, and then with the 2nd Anzac Mounted Regiment on the Western Front from mid 1916 to late 1917, before being discharged medically unfit in June 1918.
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