Name
Lionel Richard Fawkes
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/06/1916
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
77388
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 3 Feb 1889 in Dover, Kent son of Col Montague and Mrs. Florence Geraldine Fawkes of 74 North Road, Hythe, Kent, England and baptised on 21 Apr 1889 in Dover. Educated at Haileybury College 1903-06. He was a surveyor in Canada.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of thewar, he enrolled on 7 Nov 1914 in Victoria, British Colombia, Canada for the Canadian Expeditionary Force and entered France. The Canadian regiments were heavily involved in the many and fiercely fought battles around Ypres. He was reported missing believed killed in Battle of Mount Sorrel, close to Ypres.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
