Veteran Notes/Bio
- Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917-Added name) and Bygone Queanbeyan as "Sidney,KIA 1918 (B)".
- “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 3327;POB:Bungendore; POE: Sydney ;NOK: Father: Robert John Hatch,Mother " Sarah, "Glebe" Bungendore.
- AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Private ;Unit: 35 Infantry Battalion - 7 and 8 Reinforcements (January-August 1917) ; Age: 21 ; Occupation: Motor Mechanic;DOE: 31.05.1917. Embarked:2.08.1917.Sydney.HMAT Miltiades.A28.
- AWM Nominal Roll: Rank:Private ;Unit:35 Battalion ;DOE: : 31.05.1917;KIA 22.08.1918 .Buried Cote 80 French National Cemetery, Etinehem,Picardie, France (Row C Grave #1.See photograph attached.Inscpiption reads," Youngest son of R & S Hatch Bungendore NSW May he Rest in Peace" )
- See : OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis .2007.ISBN:978-1-74027-487-6
- Australian Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau files ,1914-1918 War 1DRL/0428 provides reports of death. www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1044845.
- AWM ROH pdf file: Deceased was a Stretcher Bearer at time of death.Was for some time a membefr of the Light Horse.Three cousins were KIA.Attended St Joseph's Convent School Bungendore.
- Commemorated on the Australian War Memoprial Roll of Honour Panel 125
- Application to use Rising Sun Badge:On 03 November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on a proposed street sign for "Hatch" in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations. This request was approved on 21 DEcember 2015.
- Queanbeyan -Palerang Regional Council advised in the Bungendore Weekly 26 May 2016 of its intention to name the ,"Laneway running between Gibralter Street and the Kings Highway eat of Duralla Street ",as Hatch Lane to commemorated S. Hatch who was killed in the Great War.
- Last updated January 2017.
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