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Military service
Service number:
315881
Age:
23
Rank:
Bombardier
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
3rd Bde.
Birth:
March 28, 1894
Death:
October 29, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of Charles P. and Mary D. Hawkey, of Grimsby, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Bombardier Roy Richard Hawkey
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Memorial
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Photo of Roy Hawkey
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Grimsby Ontario War Memorial
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Newspaper Clipping
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The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of "Bomb. R. R. Hawkey 3rd Bde C.F.A." is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Relations. -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations.
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Roy Richard Hawkey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 253 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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