Name
Harry Hawkins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/08/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
39551
Gloucestershire Regiment
1/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY
Plot 1 Row C Grave 15
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Thy Will be done
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Hitchin British Boys' School Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of Henry and Lucy A. Hawkins of 16, Exchange Yard, Market Place, Hitchin. He was born in Hitchin and he enlisted in Hertford. He attended Hitchin British Boys' School Memorial.
Before joining the army he was employed at Messrs Spencer's boot and shoe shop in Bucklersbury, Hitchin. Later he worked for Boot's Chemist shop in Letchworth. He was a member of the Church Lads' Brigade and had been a teacher for five years at St. Mary's Hitchin Sunday School. He was also a keen member of the Adult School in Hitchin.
Wartime Service
He was given the Regimental Number 39551 and posted to the l/4th (City of Bristol) Battalion of the Territorial Force. This unit was part of 144 Brigade of the 48th Division (T.F.). He was considered the most efficient corporal in his platoon.
He died of wounds received in action when going into the trenches on the night of the 13th August 1917 in Flanders. This was the second time that he had been wounded. He died from his wounds and was buried in Plot 1, Row C, Grave 15 in the New Irish Farm Cemetery, St. Jan in Belgium.
Additional Information
There is a private inscription on his stone reading "Thy Will be done".
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
