William Hayes (Australian cricketer)
William Bede Hayes was an Australian first-class cricketer. He played seventeen first-class matches for Queensland between 1904/05 and 1911/12. He played for South Brisbane in Queensland district cricket.
Personal life
William was the son of Patrick Hayes, and the Hayes family was prominent in Brisbane for running the Criterion Hotel on Elizabeth Street.In the First World War he served in the Australian Imperial Force Flying Corps, serving as a Private, Sapper, and Air Mechanic 2nd Class. He struggled financially after the war and received aid from the Queensland Cricket Association. He contracted tuberculosis during the war which gradually weakened him until causing his death in 1926 and he was survived by his wife and five children, the youngest of whom was only sixteen months old. The Queensland Cricket Association proposed to hold a memorial match to raise funds for the family after his death.
He is buried in Nudgee Catholic Cemetery.