Thomas Enoch HAYLOCK
Service No. 866, Private, 21st Battalion

The son of Daniel and Elizabeth Haylock of Raymond Island, Tom, a thirty year old fisherman, enlisted on 25 January 1915. During his training period in Melbourne he married his cousin Elsie on 4 April. He embarked for Egypt on HMAT Ulysses on 10 May.

In late August the 21st Battalion was dispatched as reinforcements to Gallipoli on HMT Southland. In a letter Tom wrote to his wrote to his mother, which appeared in the newspaper ‘Every Week’ on 2 December 1915, he recounts how the ship was torpedoed by German submarine UB-14 near Lemnos and the troops had to take to the boats: ‘Some of our boats got turned over and emptied us out like so much dirt’. But the ship survived ‘Our ship was like the boys, too contrary to sink…’ and sailed on, arriving at Anzac Cove on 7 September.

Tom Haylock was killed in action at Gallipoli on 12 October 1915—leaving a widow of six months in Melbourne. He is buried at Shrapnel Gully Cemetery, about 500 metres south east of Anzac Cove.

His grave is marked by a memorial plaque, with the inscription ‘Remembrance is the golden chain time tries to break but in vain’.