Jack Hazlitt
{{Short description|Australian soldier}}
{{Distinguish|Jack Hazlett|John Hazlitt}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox military person
|name = Jack Hazlitt
|image = Jack Hazlitt 1992 Australian Biography.jpeg
|caption = Hazlitt in 1992
|alt = An elderly man in a green suit and dark blue tie on a black background
|birth_name = Cecil John Hazlitt
|nickname = Jack
|birth_date = 15 June – 31 December 1897
|birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
|death_date = {{death date and given age|1993|06|15|95}}
|death_place = New South Wales, Australia
|allegiance = {{flagicon|AUS}} Commonwealth of Australia
|branch = Australian Army
|serviceyears = 1915–1916
|rank = Private
|unit = 28th Battalion
}}
Cecil John "Jack" Hazlitt (1897–1993) was an Australian soldier who fought in World War I.
Early life
Hazlitt was born between 15 June and 31 December 1897 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.{{Cite web|url=http://www.australiansatwork.com.au/hazlitt/hazlitt_en7-8.php|title=Jack Hazlitt – World War 1 Digger (1991)|publisher=Australians at Work|accessdate=30 June 2016}}
Career
Hazlitt enlisted to join Australian forces on 27 February 1915, and embarked from Fremantle on 9 June 1915. He arrived at Gallipoli in July of that year, and fought in the Gallipoli Campaign as a runner.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/australian-biography-jack-hazlitt|title=Australian Biography: Jack Hazlitt|publisher=National Film and Sound Archive|accessdate=20 February 2022}} The average runner at Gallipoli survived for 24 hours, but Hazlitt survived for five months.{{Cite web|url=http://dl.nfsa.gov.au/module/532/|title=Jack Hazlitt - World War 1 Digger|publisher=National Film and Sound Archive|accessdate=30 June 2016}} He later fought in the Battles of Pozières and the Somme, before leaving to return to Australia on 26 December 1916.
Death
Hazlitt died on 15 June 1993 in New South Wales, Australia, aged 95, while living in MacMasters Beach.{{Cite book|title=Just Call Me Jack|last=Hazlitt|first=Lesley|publisher=Lexington Avenue Press|date=December 2004|isbn=9780975151037}}, cited in {{Cite web|url=http://www.defence.gov.au/news/raafnews/editions/4720/entertain/book01.htm|title=Just Call Me Jack|publisher=Royal Australian Air Force|last=Hetherington|first=Andrew|accessdate=30 June 2016}}{{Cite web|url=http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/aus/cgi-bin/aus.cgi?main_id=477709&database=Australian%20Records&return_to=http://userdb.rootsweb.com/aus/&submitter_id=|title=newspaper Record for Cecil John HAZLITT|publisher=RootsWeb|accessdate=30 June 2016}}