Name
Joseph Hailey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/03/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
522386
Royal Engineers
486th Field Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
JERUSALEM MEMORIAL
Panel 9.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of Mr and Mrs J. Hailey of 14, Telegraph Terrace, Hitchin. Before joining up he was employed by the First Garden City Ltd in Letchworth. He was a resident of Hitchin but enlisted in Luton.
Wartime Service
He was given the Number 522386, posted to the 486th Field Company, Royal Engineers. He went into the army in January 1915 and served throughout the Gallipoli campaign having gone abroad in July 1915.
He was killed in action in Egypt near Gaza where a major attack on the Turks was developing.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 9 of the Jerusalem Memorial to the Missing in Israel.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
