Name
Arthur Pangbourne Hawkins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/04/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
F/3390
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
23rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
AA. 32.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin,
Hitchin British Boys' School Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in Hitchin and enlisted in Bedford. He attended Hitchin British Boys' School.
Wartime Service
Arthur was given the Regimental Number F/3390 and posted to the 23rd Battalion which was part of the 123rd Brigade in the 41st Division.
He died in Belgium in the Messines area. The Battalion War Diary for the 2nd April 1917 records "signs of preparation for offensive action in our sub-section noticed". This was the work in preparation for the successful Messines offensive and in which the Battalion was engaged. The Battalion was north east of the ruins of St. Eloi in the vicinity of Triangular Wood.
He was buried in Grave AA 32 in the Dickebusch New Military Cemetery in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
