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Private George Francis Hawkins

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Military service

Service number: 488223
Age: 20
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: The Royal Canadian Regiment
Birth: October 29, 1897
Death: November 16, 1917

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 10
Additional information

Born George Frederick Le Sueur Hawkins Pierson Place, St Helier, Jersey. His father Philip George Hawkins (painter by trade), married Susanne Budge in Nova Scotia and traveled to Jersey, GB where Philip was from. Sadly, Philip died (July 1898), within George's first year, and the Government of Jersey paid for Susanne and 5 children to return to her native Nova Scotia on the SS Vancouver from Liverpool on 1 January 1899.

Brother of Private James Van Alstine Baring Gould Hawkins, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment).

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 253 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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