Next of kin plaque: Lieutenant Francis Henry Haylen, 2nd Battalion, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'FRANCIS HENRY HAYLEN'.

Born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales and educated in Goulburn and Sydney, Francis Henry Haylen was employed as a railway clerk at Penrith when he enlisted in the AIF on 15 September 1916. He was posted a second lieutenant to the 22nd Reinforcements for 2nd Battalion and embarked from Sydney aboard SS Port Nicholson on 8 November.

On 10 January 1917 Haylen joined the 1st Training Battalion at Tidworth, England. In February an abscessed ear saw him hospitalised for a month before he rejoined the training battalion. He joined his battalion in France on 10 May.

Haylen was promoted lieutenant on 10 August. He was killed near Glencorse Wood on 21 September during the third battle of Ypres, in an action that cost his battalion 200 casualties. He was 25. His body was not recovered for burial and his name is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres.

This memorial plaque was sent to his father, Thomas Haylen, in December 1922. Two of Haylen's brothers also served in the war, John Joseph and Leslie Clements. Both survived.