Name
Frederick John Hawkins
14/09/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
27668
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Kings Langley Village Memorial. All Saints Church Memorial, Kings Langley
Pre War
Frederick John Hawkins was born in Hornchurch, Essex, on 14 September 1894, son of William Hawkins a Baker and Mary Ann Hawkins (nee Bennett). One of four children, Florence (B 1888), Albert (B 1893) and Frank (B 1898).
1901 Census records Frederick aged 6, at school, living with his parents and three siblings at, Langley Bridge, Abbots Langley, Herts.
No 1911 Census for Frederick was found, he was not living with the family in Kings Langley, it is assumed he was working away from home.
His mother Mary Ann Hawkins died in February 1913, aged 44.
Frederick married Mary Jane Pattison, a Nurse, the daughter of George Pattison of Leavesden, Herts, on 27 November 1915, in Leavesden.
Mary Jane Hawkins remarried in 1917 to James A. Wright, they lived in Camden Town, London.
Wartime Service
Frederick travelled to the County town of Bedford to enlist. Posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 27668.
He was with the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment on 23 April 1917, when he was killed in action, during the attack on La Coulotte, part of the Battle of Arras.
Additional Information
His widow Mary was awarded a widow’s pension of 19/9 a week, from 19 November 1917. The value of his effects was £1-4s-8d, Pay Owing and £3-10s 0d, War Gratuity which went to his widow Mary.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
