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• Harold Hume Pye †

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Born: 1 January 1891

Died: 27 April 1915

Died on service.

A letter written on 7 November 1915 by Trooper Harold Joseph Ausburn (6th Australian Light Horse Regiment) says that Harold Hume Pye was killed in a charge on 26 April 1915, the day after the landing at Gallipoli (Nepean Times, 8 January 1916, p8).  It is not clear whether the letter or the newspaper editior included the fact that it was the day after the landing.

The information reported from the letter relates to men from the Penrith district.  The 6th Light Horse did not land at Anzac Cove until 20 May 1915.   Trooper Ausburn must have received the information from one of those men who may have received it second hand.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission gives Harold Pye's date of death as 27 April 1915.  His file from the National Archives also has him killed in action on 27 April 1915.  [JSB]

 

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Name recorded

• Harold Hume Pye

Service number

• Service number 666

Rank

• Held rank of Private

Birth record

• 1891 in Williamstown, VIC, Australia

Death record

• 27 April 1915 in Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey

Address

• Hume, Central Avenue, Mosman, NSW, Australia

Relationships

• Father - William Henry Algernon Pye
• Mother - Ada Mary Murrell
• Sibling - Reginald Leslie Pye †

Organisation

• 2nd Battalion, AIF

Main sources

• PYE Harold Hume : Service Number - 666 : Place of Birth - Williamstown VIC : Place of Enlistment - Randwick NSW : Next of Kin - (Father) PYE William H A (NAA file)
• Find War Dead (webpage)
• NEW SOUTH WALES. KILLED IN ACTION. (newspaper article)
• HEROES OF THE DARDANELLES. (newspaper article)
• Roll of Honor (newspaper article)
• Letter from the Front (newspaper article)
• Letters from the Front (newspaper article)
• MEN OF THE DARDANELLES. (newspaper article)
• In Memoriam THE LATE PRIVATE H. PYE. (newspaper article)
• MEN OF THE DARDANELLES. PRIVATE H. PYE. (newspaper article)
• MILITARY MEMORIAL SERVICE (newspaper article)
• Memorial Service (newspaper article)
• The Toll of War (newspaper article)
• Soldiers' Letters (newspaper article)
• ENLISTMENT OF MR W. H. A. PYE. (newspaper article)
• Soldiers Letters (newspaper article)
• Letter from the Trenches (newspaper article)
• Penrith School of Arts ANNUAL MEETING. (newspaper article)
• Honor Roll Unveiled THE SOLDIER PARISHIONERS OF ST. STEPHEN S. (newspaper article)
• Harold Hume Pye (photograph)