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Pte. Frederick James Hawkes
South African Army 1st (Cape of Good Hope) Regiment
from:St. Marylebone, London
(d.24th March 1918)
Frederick Hawkes was born in Bedford on 15th January 1878, son of George and Rosamund May Hawkes. The 1911 census shows him boarding at 75 Hallam Street, St. Marylebone, London, aged 32 years employed as a Draper in a Silk Department (presume Department Store).
He served with the 1st Regiment, South African Infantry and died on 24th March 1918 aged 40 years on the Somme. He is buried in Hem Farm Military Cemetery, France He was a pupil of Bedford Modern School 1886-92, he is commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com.
Cpl. Ernest Alfred Hawkesworth
British Army 12th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
(d.16th August 1917)
Spr. Harold Hawkin
British Army 3rd Canadian Tunnelling Company.
(d.18th June 1918)
Harold Hawkin was the 32 year old son of John Horsley and Anne Hawkin, of York and husband of Millicent Hawkin, of 4 Langdale Rd., Scarborough. He married Millie (nee Beastall) during the war. Born in York, England, in 1886, Hawkin was attested in April 1915 and embarked for France in July where he was taken on strength of 171 Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers and then transferred to the 3rd Canadian Tunnelling Company. He is commemorated on the St Paul’s Church War Memorial, Holgate and in The King’s Book. His medals are held by the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa and appear on their website.
Harold died on 18th of June 1918 of Erysipelas. Millie related the story that Harold had been badly gassed earlier but had been sent back into action before he had enough time to fully recover. She blamed his subsequent death on his poor health and his body's inability to fight off the infection that took his life. Harold died at No. 14 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, France and is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France. Erysipelas is a type of skin infection usually caused by group A Streptococcus bacteria. The bacteria may travel to the blood in some cases. This results in a condition called bacteremia. The infection may spread to the heart valves, joints, and bones. Erysipelas is now a treatable disease.
Pte. Fred Hawkings
British Army 6th Btn. Dorsetshire Rgt.
from:Rockbeare
(d.27th August 1918)
Pte. Alfred Samuel Hawkins
British Army Yeomanry 1st/1st Sqd. West Somerset Yeomanry
Alfred Samuel Hawkins lied about his age and joined up in 1915 to serve with the West Somerset Yeomanry. The records say he went out on the Olympic (sister ship Titanic) to Gallipoli in August 1915 landing at Suvla Bay. He spent periods in Reserve and also on the front line eventually in January 1916 covering the British withdrawal. Like a lot of other Yeomanry regts They served as dismounted infantry but still retained cavalry ranks and organisation. The regiment was evacuated to Egypt.
Pte. A.S. Hawkins was invalided out in March 1917 through illness. We don't know if he fought at Gaza with his regimentt. His service record is missing - one of those destroyed in WW2 but his medal card exists. After the war he became a farmer eventually buying his own farm in Bitton near Bristol.
Pte Cecil Stephen Hawkins
British Army 2nd/7th Btn Duke of Wellington Regiment
from:5 Lister Street, West Hartlepool
(d.2nd Dec 1917)
Cecil Stephen Hawkins worked as a clerk prior to joining up. His family worshipped at Stranton All Saints Church where he is remembered on the Roll of Honour.
Gnr. Ernest James Hawkins
British Army 108th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Middle Barton, Oxford
(d.19th Apr 1917)
Sgt. Frederick Arthur Hawkins
British Army 17th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Whitstable, Kent
Dvr. George Thomas Hawkins
14th Bde Ammunition Col.
from:Faversham, Kent, England
(d.8th June 1918)
I recently found George Hawkins's death details via Ancestry. His only child, Theresa, was my grandmother. George's wife Edith Dane died 6 months later in December 1918, and Theresa was adopted by Edith's sister Emma Lufkin.
I have not been able to locate George's war records, I suspect they were destroyed like so many others in WW2, so have no evidence that he ever saw his daughter Theresa.
George was listed as a driver in RFA 14th Bde Ammunition Col. I would like to know where and what the 14th Bde was up to around the time of George's death.
Pte. George Hawkins
British Army "D" Coy. 1st Bn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
from:21 Trinity St, Salisbury
(d.21st Oct 1914)
George Hawkins joined the Army in 1908. His Battalion was rushed from Ireland to Mon's at the outbreak of the Great War. He took part in the Famous Mon's retreat when on 21st October 1914 the German Army launched a massive attack which resulted in most of "D" Company being either killed in action or taken prisoner. George Hawkins' body, like many others on that day, has never been found, he is remembered in our hearts and on panel 19 at the Le Touret Memorial.
His Brother William Charles Hawkins of the Wiltshire Regiment also fell in 1917.
Sgt. George Edward Hawkins MM.
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
WO2 George Henry Hawkins
British Army 17th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Whitstable, Kent
George Hawkins
British Army 1st Battalion Kings Own Royal Lancashire Regiment
from:Skipton, N. Yorks
Pte. Geroge Benjamin Hawkins
British Army 6th Btn, Border Regiment
from:138 Beaconsfield Road, Norwich
(d.29th Sep 1916)
L/Cpl. Harold Mawby Hawkins
British Army 7th Btn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
from:Basford, Nottingham.
(d.29th May 1916)
Harold Hawkins was killed in action on the 29th of May 1916, aged 20 and is buried in the Foncquevillers Military Cemetery in France. He was the son of Benjamin and Harriett Hawkins, of 78 Egypt Rd., Basford, Nottingham.
Cpl. Herbert Hawkins
British Army 144th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Sheffield, Yorkshire
(d.8th Oct 1917)
Corporal Herbert Hawkins served in the 144th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery. Herbert was killed on 8 October 1917 and is buried in grave VA4 at the Bard Cottage Cemetery, in the northern area of the Ypres Saliant where artillery sections such as Herberts were moved to only weeks before he died.
Herbert was 29 and the son of William and Hannah Hawkins who lived in Waleswood. The family, which included ten siblings, lived at 45 Waleswood Colliery, his father and two elder brothers, Albert and George were all coalminers. Before being sent to war Herbert was a police constable for Sheffield City police. When he died, Herbert was married to Annie Hawkins and they lived at 36 Tavistock Road, Sheffield. Herbert is also remembered on the Police and Fire War Memorial in Sheffield Cathedral and also in St. Peters Church, Abbeydale.
Cpl. Herbert Edward Bicheno Hawkins
British Army 1st/5th Btn Bedfordshire Regiment
from:109 Ebberns Road, Apsley End, Hertfordshire
(d.3rd Nov 1917)
Herbert Hawkins was the younger brother of Henrietta Elizabeth Bicheno Hawkins, my grandmother, who often talked to me about him when I was a young child. His nickname for her was Net and he looked up to her as a mother figure. Herbert was born in Finsbury Barracks, City Road, London in the spring of 1896, the son of Sergeant Major Edward Charles Hawkins of the 6th Battalion Royal Fusiliers and Henrietta Sarah Hawkins (nee Bicheno).
Herbert joined the Bedfordshire Regiment in 1914. He served as corporal but at the time of his death he was acting sergeant. On 2nd of November 1917 the battalion took part in the dawn attack on the village of Sheik Hasan on the seaward side of the town of Gaza in Palestine. The attack was successful taking most of its objectives and capturing 182 prisoners. For the rest of the 2nd and 3rd November the battalion was under heavy shellfire and it is likely that it was during this period that Herbert was killed.
He is buried in the Gaza cemetery, Israel. I had the good fortune to visit Israel and Jordan in 2013 with a group from my local church. Needless to say we were not taken to Gaza which is sadly still a war torn area. Herbert is also remembered on the war memorials at John Dickinson's Paper Mill where he worked and at St Mary's Church Apsley where the family worshipped and my parents were married and I myself was baptised.
I am pleased to know these details of the life of my great uncle Herbert and remember my grandma's stories with pride.
Joshua Hawkins
British Army 10th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Cambridge
(d.30th May 1918)
Joshua Hawkins was my great uncle. Before the war he worked as a chef in one of the Cambridge colleges. He was called up in 1916 or 1917 and joined the 10th Battalion, Essex Regiment. He served in France and was taken prisoner. He died of dysentery as a POW, aged 42, on 30th of May 1918 and is buried south east of Ham in the Annois Communal Cemetery, Aisne.
A/Capt Kenneth Edwards Hawkins MC
British Army 7th Btn., B Coy London Regiment
from:Beaumont, Stanton Road, Croydon, London
(d.22 March 1918)
2nd Lt. Leslie William Hawkins
British Army 6th Battalion Notts & Derby Regiment
from:Wanstead, London
Leslie Hawkins was my Grandpa. He enlisted in the Second County of London Yeomanry in December 1915. He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in August 1917, then Kings Own Royal Lancs. Then after a discharge, he was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant of the 6th Battalion in the Sherwood Foresters in March 1918. He saw action at Bellenglise, Sambre-Oise Canal and Cambria. He survived, resigned his commission in 1922.
Apparently he rarely talked about the horrors. He died at 80, but sadly being too young to know, I never got a chance to talk to him, recognise what he had done or really appreciated his experience in his presence. Clearly an extraordinary man but also in my memory, good to be around. Gone but never forgotten.
Lt. Lionel Hope Hawkins
British Army att. 6th Dragoon Guards Kings Dragoon Guards
from:90 Drayton Gardens, London
(d.31st Oct 1914)
Lieutenant Lionel Hope Hawkins, of the 1st (King’s) Dragoon Guards, was attached to the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) when he was killed during the fighting for Messines on 31st of October 1914. Captain P. M. A. Kerans, the Adjutant of the Carabiniers, wrote to the parents of Lieutenant Hawkins and described the circumstances in which their son had died:
“It appears that after the enemy had penetrated our line a party was observed by him approaching the trench which he held with his troop. He ordered fire to be opened on them, but they shouted – ‘Don’t fire, we are the Scottish,’ and he ordered his men to cease fire, and himself bravely, but incautiously, got out of his trench and went towards them. He had gone about 30 yards when the Germans – for it was the Germans and not the London Scottish – opened fire, and he was seen to fall. Two men went out and brought him back to the trench, and it was seen he was badly wounded in the right side. He was removed to a place of comparative safety, but died soon afterwards.”
After Hawkins had died, it was reported that his body had been left by a fence on the edge of a wood by his soldiers, who were unable to carry him back any further as they were under fire and had been ordered to retire. They had covered him with a blanket before leaving. Lieutenant Hawkins was aged 28 when he was killed and was the son of Mr J. T. and Mrs M. H. Hawkins, who lived at 90 Drayton Gardens in London. Lieutenant Hawkins is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
Pte. Samuel Hedley Hemming Hawkins
Australian Imperial Force 15th Infantry Btn.
from:Australia
Samuel Hedley Hemming Hawkins was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1897 to Hedley and Florence Hawkins. He enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force on 18th September 1914 whilst still 17 years old, joining the 15th Infantry Battalion. He had no prior military experience, other than four years with cadets, and was working as a factory hand at the time. Hawkins departed Australia for Egypt aboard HMAT Ceramic in December 1914.
After training in Egypt, Hawkins embarked for Gallipoli, landing late on 25th April 1915. He spent five months fighting on the peninsula before being transferred to hospital in Egypt, suffering from dysentery and shell shock. Hawkins was discharged from hospital in January 1916 and ordered to return to Australia to recuperate.
In October 1916 Hawkins joined the Citizen Military Forces, while also working as a clerk in the AIF pay office in Brisbane. By mid-1917 he had re-enlisted, this time as Hedley Hawkins, joining the 11th Reinforcements for the 4th Pioneer Battalion. Again, Hawkins exaggerated his age, stating that he was 21 and born in 1895, helping to avoid the need for parental consent. On 1st August 1917 he travelled aboard HMAT Medic to England.
Hawkins' second term of service was mainly spent at Kandahar Barracks at Tidworth, receiving a brief promotion to acting lance corporal in December 1917. In mid-1918 he finally saw service overseas, transferring to France with the 4th Pioneer Battalion. However, this was not to last long. Samuel Hawkins returned to England just over six months later and demobilised for return to Australia during January 1919.
Samuel Hedley Hemming Hawkins' son, 404433 Sergeant Hedley Maurice Hawkins served in the Second World War with No. 101 Squadron, Royal Air Force.
T. Hawkins
British Army 7th Btn. Royal West Surrey Regiment
from:England
(d.22nd Nov 1917)
T Hawkins served with the Royal West Surrey Regiment, 7th Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 22nd November 1917, and is buried in Bleuet Farm Cemetery, Belgium .
The mass pardon of 306 British Empire soldiers executed for certain offences during the Great War was enacted in section 359 of the Armed Forces Act 2006, which came into effect on royal assent on 8th November 2006.
Cpl. Thomas William Hawkins
British Army 2/8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
from:Redditch, Worcs
(d.27th Aug 1917)
Thomas Hawkins served with the 2nd/8th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment and died on 27th August 1917.
L/Cpl Victor Henry Hawkins MM.
British Army 3rd Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Finchampstead
(d.28th Apr 1918)
Victor Hawkins was my great uncle, we have only just found out about him recently. He was killed in action during the Battle of Kemmel. He's buried at La Clythe Military Cemetery in Belgium. Rest in Peace.
Pte. Walter Thomas Hawkins
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers
(d.29th September 1918)
L/Cpl. William Charles Hawkins
British Army 1st/4th Bn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:21 Trinity St, Salisbury
(d.22nd Nov 1917)
Lance Corporal William Charles Hawkins, died of wounds and is buried at Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel. His Brother George Hawkins of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry also fell.
Pte. William Hawkins
British Army 10th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Leeds
(d.2nd August 1917)
My Great Grandfather William Hawkins enlisted in March 1915 with the 10th battalion West Yorkshire Regiment as Private 19944. In March 1916, he suffered a superficial gunshot wound to the head. On return from 3 days in hospital, he joined 10th Cheshire as Private 52341. William was wounded on 31st of July 1917 at Pilkem Ridge. He died on 2nd of August 1917 of wounds and is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.
Pte. William Francis Hawkins
British Army 7th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Stinchcombe
(d.8th Jan 1916)
William Hawkins was born on 17 Feb 1895 Stinchcombe, near Stroud. He served with Gloucestershire Constabulary from 1906 to 1912 (More info and a photo can be found on Gloucestershire Police Archives Site. His police no was 3839.)
He served in 7th (Service) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on 8th of January 1916. He's commemorated on the Helles War Memorial Turkey and on Holy Trinity Church, Longlevens, Gloucester where his brother Henry (who also served in the War) was the Sub Post Master.
Pte. William James Hawkins
British Army 8th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
(d.4th Oct 1917)
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