Military service
Burial/memorial 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).
Digital gallery of Private George Francis Hawkins
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Neil's Harbour, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia -
Biography
Submitted with the permission of Bonnie Thornhill, from the book "In the Morning Veterans of Victoria County, Cape Breton. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of George Hawkins
Submitted with the permission of Bonnie Thornhill, from the book "In the Morning Veterans of Victoria County, Cape Breton. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Private George Francis Hawkins
Digital gallery of
Private George Francis Hawkins
Digital gallery of
Private George Francis Hawkins
Digital gallery of
Private George Francis Hawkins
Digital gallery of
Private George Francis Hawkins
Digital gallery of
Private George Francis Hawkins
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 253 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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