Laura Hayward was the vice-president of the Otago and Southland Women's Patriotic Association. She received the Queen Elisabeth Medal for her work with Belgian refugees in Dunedin during the First World War.
Family information: Laura Maria Hayward
Parents: John Charles and Rebecca Eyre
Born: 1870
Died: 1966
Married: Charles Henry Hayward, 1890
Children:
- Ruth Agnes, b. 1892
- Charles John, b. 1894; served in the FIrst World War as a trooper in the Otago Mounted Rifles
- Rowland Eyre, b. 1895
- Laurie Lees, b. 1911
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