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Military service
Service number:
706875
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
29th Bn.
Birth:
April 10, 1888
Middlesex, England
Enlistment:
February 1, 1916
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
August 21, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Alfred Robert Harington Hawes of Wembley, Middlesex, England. Brother of Dora R. Hawes and Mary Hawes of Wembley, Middlesex, England.
Additional citations
British War Medal, Victory Medal.
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Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of July 13, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y187uvic/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater -
Photo of Edward Waters Hawes
From the Daily Colonist of July 16, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y189uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
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Private Edward Waters Hawes
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Waters Hawes
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Waters Hawes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 253 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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