Jerome Sutton HAYES
Year of Birth: 1910
Place of Birth: Glencoe, South Australia
Date of Enlistment: 2 July 1940, Adelaide, South Australia
Australian Defence Force: Australian Imperial Force
Rank: Corporal
Unit(s): 2/3 L. of C. (Lines of Communication) Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps
Service Number: SX7494
Died: 26 December 1943
Age: 33 years
Buried: Cairns War Cemetery – Plot A – Row B – Grave 15
Jerome was born 26 December 1910 in Glencoe South Australia to Jerome Stanton and Emily Victoria (Sutton) Hayes. He enlisted in Adelaide and gave his wife Edna as his next of kin.
Corporal Hayes fought in the desert campaigns and Tobruk. He was killed when the motor cycle he was riding collided with a car at East Innisfail.
Jerome Sutton Hayes’s name is on the Adelaide Roll of Honour board and also located at panel 93 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Online Resources
NAA: B883, (HAYES Jerome Sutton) National Archives of Australia
Department Veterans’ Affairs Nominal Rolls
National Library of Australia: Trove Digitised Newspapers
Queensland Registrar of Births Deaths & Marriages
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