Four of the sons of Julia Louisa (née Coronel) and John Hains of 'Eastbourne', Lefevre Terrace, North Adelaide, enlisted in WW1: Philip, Ivan, Harold and Morris.

The youngest, born 31 December 1893, Morris Hains, attended Prince Alfred College then graduated with First Class Honours from Roseworthy Agricultural College, SA, and became a wheat farmer at ‘Curbau’, near Dubbo, NSW.

He enlisted at Liverpool on 23 May 1915, age 21, in the 6th Reinforcement of the 3rd Battalion: No. 2150 Private Morris Hains. The unit embarked Sydney on HMAT A63 Karoola on 16 June and arrived in Egypt in July.

Ashore at Anzac Cove on 30 July 1915 - barely two months after he enlisted - Morris joined the remnants of the 3rd Battalion, part of the 1st Australian Infantry Brigade that was still rebuilding after the heavy losses sustained in the initial landings at Gallipoli. They were now preparing for the attempted “Breakout from Anzac.” It began the following week on 6 August, with some of the brigade approaching the enemy lines through tunnels they’d dug and fierce hand-to-hand fighting in Turkish trenches at the “diversionary” Battle of Lone Pine (photo) - considered a “victory” for the Anzacs, but which cost the Australians 2,000 casualties and the Turks 7,000. Morris’ record states that he was “killed in action” between 7 and 12 August, but gives no indication of the circumstances, only that he was “Buried at Lone Pine.” One of the seven Victoria Cross attainees during that battle was L/Cpl Leonard Keysor, a Jewish digger of the 1st Battalion.

Louisa and John learnt of their 21-year-old son, Pte Morris Hains’ demise later in 1915, however details of his gravesite were not forthcoming. Eventually, after more than eight years, in September 1923, they received advice that a permanent memorial stone would be erected at the Lone Pine Cemetery, with an inscription commencing: “Believed to be buried in this Cemetery” (see attached photo). The parents chose to add the epitaph:
THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT

In September 1916, another brother, Leon, in a letter to Base Records Melbourne, seeking clarity regarding the proceeds of Morris’ estate, concluded: "To my mother ... is certainly due every consideration. She has already given one son in the cause of the Empire, and she is also sending another son* to the Firing Line to take Morris's place. I understand Dr I. C. Hains will not be in the Firing Line."

* Pte Harold Hains, 27th Battalion; also, S/Sgt Philip Hains was a paymaster in London. In July 1967, Morris’ only surviving sibling, Mrs Esther Camens, applied for his special Gallipoli Medallion: the ramifications of the Great War still echoing down the decades.